2.1 ASP

Use the flow chart to tell what the soil type is.

the ribbon is 3cm in length and the soil is very gritty

• silty clay

• sandy clay loam

• silt loam

• sandy loam

use the soil triangle.

what is 40% 40% 20%

• clay loam

• clay

• medium loam

• silty clay

A blocky soil structure will have which type of permeability?

• Slow

• moderate

• rapid

• no movement

What structure is weak?

• prismatic

• granular

• blocky

• column

The speed that water that travels through an object is

• water holding capacity

• runoff

• permeability

• porosity

How much water is retained within an object is

• water holding capacity

• permeability

• porosity

• runoff

What depends on these three things?

Texture, structure, and organic matter

• runoff

• water holding capacity

• permeability

• porosity

clay has a ______ permeability rate

• rapid

• moderate

• slow

The water holding capacity of sand is

• low

• medium

• high

Organic matter is in (select all that apply)

• Sand

• SIlt

• Clay