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Welcome to an exciting game of Soil Taxonomy Jeopardy! I’m your host, Alex Trebek. Rules. Choose a category and a point level. Look at the clue. Answer before the music stops. Answer in the form of a question. Example:. “This order forms in volcanic ash”. Answer. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Welcome toan exciting game of Soil Taxonomy Jeopardy! I’m your host, AlexTrebek.
Rules
• Choose a category and a point level.
• Look at the clue.
• Answer before the music stops.
• Answer in the form of a question.
Diagnostic
Horizons
Verbal descriptions of Orders/Subord
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“This order forms in volcanic ash”.
Answer
“What is an Andisol ?”
Diagnostic
Horizons
Verbal descriptions of Orders/Suborde
rs
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Answer
this epipedon
GRASSLAND SOIL
“What is MOLLIC ?”
“This diagnostic horizon is similar to mollic but it has less than 50% base saturation”.
Answer
“What is UMBRIC ?”
Answer
“This epipedon forms in VOLCANIC ASH and is very high in organic matter and is very black”.
“What is MELANIC ?”
Answer
White, leached, coarsediagnostic horizon
“What is ALBIC ?”
Answer
“This diagnostic horizon has accumulated silicate clays, usually as clay skins”.
“What is ARGILLIC ?”
Answer
“This order forms in forests and has an argillic horizon”.
“What is an Alfisol ? “
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“This order forms in permafrost regions”
“What is a Gelisol?”
“This order has organic parent material”.
Answer
“What is a Histosol ? “
“This suborder prefix refers to soils in HUMID climates ”.
Answer
“What is an Ud- ? “
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“This suborder prefix refers to soils in regions with a Mediterranean climate (dry summers/wet winters).”
“What is an Xer- ? “
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“This diagnostic horizon has accumulated carbonates and is also called a Bk horizon.”
“What is a calcic horizon ? “
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This diagnostic horizon isstained with organic materialand iron oxides from the above layer.
“What is a Spodic horizon ? “
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“This is the most ultimately weathered soil order that forms in the contiguous United States.”
“What is an Ultisol ? “
Answer
“This order is the most thoroughly leached, eluviated and weathered of all soil orders and is found in the tropics.”
“What is an Oxisol ? “
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This soil order isrepresented by this diagram.
“What is a Spodosol ? “
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This material forms in tropical soils and can be hardened into bricks.
“What is plinthite / laterite ? “
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“This soil order cracks deeply when it is dry and forms in shrink-swell clays.”
“What is a Vertisol ? “
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“This soil order hasa pale profile and usually has a layer of salt or carbonateAccumulation.”
“What is an Aridisol ? “
Answer
“This ”
This is a typical environment in which you might find this soil order.
“What is an Entisol ? “
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The map shows the distributionof this soil order.
“What is an Ultisol ? “
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These shiny ped surfacesform in soils with shrink-swell clays.
“What are slickensides ? “
Answer
“This soil order is mapped here”.
“What is a Mollisol ? “
