Chapter 4: Soil Types
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1) Name the three phases in the study of soil types.
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2) Describe the factors, which affect soil formation.
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3) How does climate affect soil formation?
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4) How is soil formation affected by parent material?
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5) How does the climate influence parent material weathering and soil
development?
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6) How is the world divided into climatic regions?
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7) “Regional variation in rainfall and evaporation are reflected in soil type
variation” Discuss.
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8) What is meant by the term topography?
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9) What effect do living organisms have on soil formation?
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10) How does “run off” differ from water percolating through soil?
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11) Define a soil profile.
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12) Differentiate between physical and chemical weathering.
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13) Differentiate between calcification and acid leaching.
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14) What is gleisation?
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15) How are soils classified?
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16) Name 4 different soil classifications.
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17) Compare using a labelled diagram two different soil types.
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18) Differentiate using a diagram between basin and blanket peats.
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19) How are soils surveyed and mapped?
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20) Describe how you would examine the colour and texture of a soil sample?
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21) Outline how you would examine an excavated soil profile.
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