Franklin Pierce University

PA 210

QUIZ 2

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1 TO 4

1)The five master soil horizons are O, Ap, E, B and C

2.                  The C horizon is the least weathered soil horizon.

3.                  Muck soils are developed from accumulated organic matter.

4. Forest soils are more likely to have a thick A horizon than grassland soils.

5. A soil parent material that develop in place from weathering of underlying rock of any kind is called ___________
6. The process by which earthworms, ants move soil up and down in the soil profile is called ______________

7. Soils developed from colluvial parent material are usually
   1. Flat and fertile

1. 2. coarse, stony, with fast drainage

1. 3. Light porous and productive

1. 4. Clayey and poorly drained

8. The coarser textured soil in an old lake bed is found

1. 1. Throughout the area

1. 2. Mainly in the center of the old lake bed

1. 3. Mainly at the edges of the old lake bed

1. 4. There is never any coarser textured soil associated with old lake beds