Read the following text and answer the questions mentioned below: Madhav performed an experiment to identify three samples of soil i.e sandy, clayey and loamy .He took three empty and dry measuring cylinders and placed one funnel on each of the cylinder. He fixed filter paper cones in each of the funnel .Then placed 50 gm sample of each type of soil in the funnels placed over cylinder and labelled them as A ,B and C. He poured 50 ml of water over soil in each funnel and allowed the water to percolate till it stopped. He measured the volume of water collected in each measuring cylinder. i. Identify the type of soil labelled as A ,B and C respectively ii .Which soil has maximum water holding capacity and why? iii. Which soil has least water holding capacity and why? iv. Which soil is considered best for growing crops?
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1) a. sandy
b. clayey
c. loamy
2) clayey soil has more holding capacity because the clayey soil abrob more water
3) sandy soil has least holding capacity
4) loamy
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