2. Soil & Soil Judging Jeopardy

3. Jeopardy With your host, Mr. C “Soils”

4. Soil Basics Soil Texture Soil Character Soil Nutrients Soil Misc. 1 Soil Misc. 2 100 300 500 700 1000 Click Here to go to Final Jeopardy

5. If you have an original topsoil thickness of 12 inches, and a current topsoil thickness of 13 inches, what is you soil past erosion classification and is it a limiting factor? Deposition, non-limiting??

6. What are the 5 textural group classes and tell which ones are limiting and which ones are non-limiting? Coarse (L), moderately coarse (L), medium (N), moderately fine (N), fine (L) ??

7. If you have an original topsoil thickness of 12 inches, and a current topsoil thickness of 11 inches, what is you soil past erosion % and classification and is it a limiting factor ? About 8-9% which is none to slight, non- limiting??

8. When would you use occasional soil conserving crops in rotation Class 1 & 2 soils??

9. Name 5 characteristics that soil texture affect. Moisture holding capacity, permaeability, the capacity to hold and furnish nutrients, tilth, erosion??

10. A moistened soil forms a ribbon and the ribbon is 1-2 inches, what is this soil. Moderately fine or silty clay??

11. How do you determine permeability. ?

12. How do you determine surface runoff? ?

13. A soil distane = 50 ft and the difference in height is 3 ft, what is the slope? 6%??

14. Describe a land capability class 6. ?

15. Fertility Treatment question? ?

16. What are 7 of the 10 essential elements –Carbon (C) Hydrogen (H) Oxygen (O) –Phosphorus (P) Potash (K) Nitrogen (N) –Sulfur (S) Calcium (Ca) Iron (Fe) –Magnesium (Mg) ? ?

17. What’s photosynthesis? ?

18. What is respiration? ?

19. Approximately ____% of weight of plants comes from products of photosynthesis 95%??

20. What two categories of texture are not limiting Medium and moderately fine??

21. When would you use frequent soil conserving crops in rotation? Class 3 & 4 soils??

22. Name 4 of the seven soil structure categories. (not texture) Single grain, crumb or granular, blocky, prismatic, columnur, platy, massive??

23. What are 3 mechanical erosion treatments and when would you use these? ?

24. Name four vegetative treatments and explain them. ?

25. Soil and Mr. C. are both old but how old is Mr. C.? Is Climate a limiting factor in Eastern SD? How do you detemine If the water table is a limiting factor? ?

26. What does a dark brown or black soil tell us? That soil Is high in organic material or had a dark parent material??

27. What does a bluish gray color of the soil tell us? That the soil is lacking oxygen which indicates poor drainage??

28. Which category of stoniness, permeability, and surface runoff are limiting? ?

29. What are 3 micronutrients? ?

30. Final Jeopardy!! Category: soil judging and classes

31. Classify the following Land into its capability class. This land is a moderately good land that can be cultivated safely with intensive treatments, yet it has severe limitations or hazards due to land characteristics. Exp. Coarse soil with moderately deep soil & moderate erosion, 6-9% slope, and fairly rapid surface runoff or permeability. What is a Class III soil?

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