Unit 24 | Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

A sequence of soil profiles that appears in regular succession on landforms of uniform rock type is called a:
a) resistant residue
b) nomesistant residue
c) soil catena
d) soil consistence
e) loam

Question 2:

The peds associated with platy soil structure most closely resemble:
a) flakes
b) columns
c) bread crumbs
d) clay cubes
e) small ropes

Question 3:

The peds associated with prismatic soil structure most closely resemble:
a) flakes
b) columns
c) bread crumbs
d) clay cubes
e) small ropes

Question 4:

The peds associated with spheroidal soil structure most closely resemble:
a) flakes
b) columns
c) bread crumbs
d) clay cubes
e) small ropes

Question 6:

Which country's pedology was so prominently developed that its word for "soil" is now part of the name of every major soil type?
a) Germany
b) Great Britain
c) the United States
d) Russia
e) Israel

Question 7:

Alluvial soils are mostly found on valley floors.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

The particles of a sandy soil are smaller than those of a silty soil.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

A soil's pedon is vertically longer than its solum
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Spheroidal and granular are terms that both apply to the same basic type of soil structure.
a) True
b) False

Question 11:

A soil with a pH of 7 is neither acidic nor alkalinic.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

A loam soil cannot contain sand-sized soil particles.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Which of the following is not a process of soil formation?
a) translocation
b) transpiration
c) transformation
d) losses
e) addition

Question 15:

Downward percolation of soil water is most closely associated with:
a) transformation
b) addition
c) illuviation
d) horizonation
e) regolith weathering

Question 16:

The soil horizon most closely identified with eluviation is designated by the letters:
a) Aa
b) Oe
c) Ae
d) Re
e) Fe

Question 17:

Oxisols are most closely associated with:
a) illuviation in steep-sloped zones
b) moist tropical soil regimes
c) translocated D horizons
d) humus-controlled leaching in pine-needle dominated desert environments
e) a and c

Question 18:

Which of the following is not a primary soil component?
a) organic matter
b) resistant residue
c) bedrock
d) altered chemical compounds
e) soil solution

Question 19:

Spodosols are never found in tropical rainforest soil regimes.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Eluviation refers to the upward movement of dissolved soil materials.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

A residual soil is composed of parent material transported in from another area.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Soil is a good example of a nonrenewable resource.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

The O horizon is the uppermost of the soil profile's master horizons.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

The process of transformation occurs only in the soil's lowest layers.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

The process of transformation occurs only in the soil's lowest layers.
a) True
b) False

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