Soil Quiz Review

Which is a type of physical weathering

• Acid Rain

• Rust

• Freeze thaw

• Carbonation

How did people contribute to the Dust bowl.

• Farmers plowing up the natural grasslands and poor farming practices.

• Farmers not rotating where they are planting their crops.

• Farmers leaving the crops in the ground for too long

• Farmers not securing their crops against wildlife

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The slow breaking down of rocks is called

• Plowing

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

Which layer from the soil horizon is commonly known as topsoil?

• Layer O

• Layer A

• Layer B

• Layer C

What is a sieve?

• A tool used to help measure the amount of moisture in soil

• A tool used to help farmers during planting season

• A tool used to separate soils of different sizes

• A strategy used by farmers to help remember where they planted crops the previous year.

Common chemical reactions happen with

• vinegar

• salt

• temperature change

• abrasion

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All are farming techniques that farmers use to prevent erosion except

• terracing

• contour plowing

• crop rotation

• soil replacement.

What is identified as #3?

• Layer A

• Layer O

• Layer b

• Layer C

Which layer consists of at least 20% of organic matter? 

• Layer O

• Layer A

• Layer B

• Layer D

Preventing eriosion is not just for farmland, it can also....

• 
  Replant forests

• Cause rocks to break down 

• 
  Stops acid rain from happening

• 
  Creates mountains

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