Natural resources Unit 5

When identifying the texture of a soil, you are determining the

• The type of rock underneath the soil

• the age of the soil

• the size of the grains in the soil

• the crops the soil supports

Answer explanation

The texture of the particles of the soil are different sizes.

Gravel has the largest particle, then sand, silt, and clay

List the particles correctly in decreasing order

• Sand, gravel, clay, silt

• Gravel, sand, silt, clay

• Sand, gravel, silt, clay

• Gravel, sand, clay, silt

During an investigation of soil samples, funnels are placed on top of glass beakers. Each funnel is then filled with different soil samples. Then, 100 ml of water is poured into each soil sample. What is the purpose of this investigation?

• How much water is retained by each soil sample

• The mass of each soil sample

• the relative density of each soil sample

• which soil is the darkest color

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Water is most likely to runoff than absorb with this soil due to the lack of drainage through the soil. The soil type is most likely?

• Clay

• silt

• loam

• sand

During an experiment, students noticed water poured easily through sand, but not through clay soil. What causes clay soil to retain more water than the sand.

• The clay soil is a darker color than the sand

• Plants grow in clay soil do not need a lot of water

• clay soil has larger particles that keep water from flowing through

• The soil particles in clay are small and packed closely together

All of the following are nonrenewable resources except?

• coal

• animals

• petroleum

• natural gas

what nonrenewable resource is a solid substance made from ancient trees that were buried millions of years ago and is now mined from the ground used as an energy source

• natural gas

• coal

• plants

• water

which of the following is a nonrenewable?

• air

• trees

• cows

• natural gas

Air, plants and animals are what?

• nonrenewable

• renewable

coal, oil, natural gas are what?

• unlimited

• nonrenewable

• renewable