Question

.Explain the different types of soil based on its composition. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

The different types of soil are

Sand

Clay

Silt

Peat

Chalk

Loam

based on dominating size

Answer 2

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☯ A N S W E R :-

✏Soil is a natural resource that can be categorised into different soil types, each with distinct characteristics that provide growing benefits and limitations.

➡ The types of soils are :-

↪Sandy soil :

• Sandy Soil is light, warm, dry and tend to be acidic and low in nutrients.

• Sandy soils are often known as light soils due to their high proportion of sand and little clay . These soils have quick water drainage and are easy to work with.

↪Clay Soil :

• Clay Soil is a heavy soil type that benefits from high nutrients. Clay soils remain wet and cold in winter and dry out in summer.

• These soils are made of over 25 percent clay, and because of the spaces found between clay particles, clay soils hold a high amount of water.

↪Silt Soil :

• Silt may occur as a soil, often mixed with sand and clay or as a sediment mixed in suspension with water in rivers and streams and as deposits in the bottom.

• Silt has a moderate specific area with a typically non-sticky, plastic feel. Silt usually has a floury feel when dry, and a slippery feel when wet.

↪Peat Soil :

• Characteristics and Engineering Properties of Peaty Soil Underlying Cranberry Bogs. Peat is an organic complex soil, well known for its high compressibility and low stability.

• Peat forms naturally by the incomplete decomposition of plant and animal constituents under anaerobic conditions at low temperatures.

↪Chalk Soil :

• Chalky soils are often shallow, stony and free-draining, and added organic matter can decompose rapidly, making them difficult to keep fertile.

• Poor growth and yellowing leaves (chlorosis) are a result of the plants not being able to absorb iron and manganese by their roots.

↪Loam Soil :

• Loam soils generally contain more nutrients, moisture, and humus than sandy soils, have better drainage and infiltration of water and air than silt and clay-rich soils, and are easier to till than clay soils.

✔ For understanding some more better pictures of soils are attached to above attachment.

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