Cultiple Cho
(a) topsoil
(a) sandy soil
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(a) sandy soil
SECTION - B
ole choice Questions (MCQs) Scientific/Practical skills
his layeris made up of small lumps of broken rocks and lacks humus.
(b) subsoil
(c) substratum
(d) bedrock
This soilisamixture of equal amount of sand and clay, with silt and humus.
(b) clayey soil
(c) loamy soil
(d) mixed soit
which soil absorbs water the most?
(b) clayey soil
(c) loamy soil
(d) mixed soil
which type of soil is the best for growing cotton?
(a) sandy
(b) clayey
(c) loamy
(d) sandy-loamy
very Short Answer Questions:
7 Which is the best soil for growing lentils? Poamy doi!
Which type of soil has the (a) lowest perce
ne (a) lowest percolation rate of water, (b) highest percolation rate of water?
which soil absorbs more water-sandy soil or clayeysoil?
What are three most important things for which we depend on the soil?
Short Answer Type-l Questions:
1. How is humus formed in the soil?
What is the difference between clayey and sandy soil?
3. What is meant by percolation rate?
4. 100 mL of water was taken in a measuring cylinder. This water was added dropwise to so gof dry soil
kept on filter paper in the funnel. When the water just started dripping from the soil in the funnel, the
amount of water left in the measuring cylinder was found to be 80 mL. Calculate the percentage of
water absorbed by this soil.
hort Answer Type-11 Questions:
3. Which so
Answers
Answer:
soil is a natural resources that can be categorised into different soil types each with distinct characteristics that provide growing benefits and limitations
identifying the type of soil you required for a project is paramount to support the healthy growth of plant life
soil can be categorised into sand clay slit Pete chauk and Lomb types of soil based on the dominating size of the particles within a soil
Sandy soil:
sandy soil is light warm dry and tend to be acidic and low in nutrition Sandy soils afternoon as light soil due to the proportion of sand and little clay
soils have quick water drainage and are easy to work with their Quikr to warm up in spring than clay soil button to dry out in summer and suffers from loan nutrition that are washed away by rain
The addition of organic matter can help give plant and additional boost of nutrition by improving the nutrition and water holding capacity of the soil
Subsoil:
subsoil is a layer of soil under the top soil on the surface of the ground like topsoil it is composed of a variable mixture of small particles such as sand silt and clay but with a much lower percentage of organic matter and humus below the subsoil is the substratum which can be residual bedrock sediments as it is lacking in dark humour subsoil is usually Paler incolor Dandi overlying topsoil it may contain didi per rules of some plants archestra but a majority of plant roots lie within the topsoil
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