Unit 25 | Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 2:

Permafrost environments are most likely to exhibit soils of the Order known as:
a) histosols
b) icisols
c) glacisols
d) gelisols
e) mollisols

Question 3:

The Soil Order associated with volcanic-ash-derived soils is called:
a) lavasols
b) ultisols
c) alfisols
d) pyrosols
e) andisols

Question 4:

Oxisols are most widespread in:
a) deserts
b) polar areas
c) semiarid grasslands
d) the rainy tropics
e) high mountain environments

Question 5:

Which of the following pedologists devised the Soil Taxonomy?
a) Charles Marbut
b) Vasily Dokuchayev
c) Konstantin Glinka
d) Mikhail Solstoy
e) none of these

Question 7:

Andisols cover a larger area of the global land surface than any other Soil Order.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

In the Soil Taxonomy there are more Great Groups than Suborders.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

Canada does not contain soils of the oxisol Order.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

The Seventh Approximation refers to the soil classification scheme developed directly after the Soil Taxonomy.
a) True
b) False

Question 11:

Vertisols can often be identified by large cracks that open during the dry season.
a) True
b) False

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