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1. Soil: Soil is the mixture of minerals, organic matter, liquids, and gases covering most of the Earth's land surface and that serves, or has the ability to serve, as a medium for the growth of land plants. Although it may ... [100%] 2023-02-03
2. Soil: Soil : A layer of small-grained minerals that covers the solid rocks at the surface of our planet and in the presence of water and light provides the basis for terrestrial vegetation. [100%] 2023-08-25
3. Soil: Soil is typically used to refer fertile dirt or earth. It is often composed of decaying plant and/or animal matter, particles of various minerals or rocks, and some amount of water in the form of moisture. [100%] 2023-02-18 [Geology] [Permaculture]...
4. Soil: Soil, a menudo escrito SOiL, es una banda de rock de Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos. Los miembros actuales son Ryan McCombs (vocalista), Tom Schofield (batería), Tim King (bajo) y Adam Zadel (guitarra). [100%] 2024-02-21
5. Soil: Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the ... (Chemistry) [100%] 2024-04-10 [Granularity of materials] [Natural materials]...
6. Soil physics: Soil physics is the study of soil's physical properties and processes. It is applied to management and prediction under natural and managed ecosystems. (Earth) [70%] 2023-08-28 [Soil physics]
7. Soil Formation: Soil is a loose mixture of rock fragments, organic material, water, and air that can accommodate the growth of vegetation. Soils differ according to what type of rock that the soil is weathered from (an example, Bedrock). [70%] 2024-01-09 [Nature]
8. Soil series: Soil series as established by the National Cooperative Soil Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service are a level of classification in the USDA Soil Taxonomy classification system hierarchy. The actual object of classification ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-14 [Pedology] [Types of soil]...
9. Soil bioengineering: Soil and Water Bioengineering is a discipline of civil engineering. It pursues technological, ecological, economic as well as design goals and seeks to achieve these primarily by making use of living materials, i.e. (Earth) [70%] 2023-10-19 [Civil engineering] [Environmental soil science]...
10. Soil salinity: Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization. Salts occur naturally within soils and water. (Physics) [70%] 2023-10-28 [Salts] [Environmental soil science]...
11. Californian Soil: Californian Soil is the third studio album by English indie pop band London Grammar, released on 16 April 2021 by Metal & Dust and Ministry of Sound. It was initially intended to be released on 12 February 2021, but was postponed ... [70%] 2024-01-19 [2021 albums] [Albums produced by Charlie Andrew]...
12. Soil defertilisation: Soil defertilisation refers to the practice of reducing soil fertility in order to reduce the number of plants that can grow on that soil. It is often done on land not intended for agriculture, such as city parks. [70%] 2023-12-28 [Fertilizers] [Sustainable technologies]...
13. Soil science: Soil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the Earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils; and these properties in relation to the use and ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-14 [Earth sciences]
14. Soil conservation: Soil conservation is set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, salinization, acidification, or other chemical soil contamination. The principal approaches these strategies take are: other ways ... [70%] 2023-11-11 [Conservation] [Land management]...
15. Soil morphology: Soil morphology is the branch of soil science dedicated to the technical description of soil, particularly physical properties including texture, color, structure, and consistence. Morphological evaluations of soil are typically performed in the field on a soil profile containing multiple ... (Description of soil horizons) [70%] 2024-01-09 [Pedology]
16. Soil biology: Soil biology is the study of microbial and faunal activity and ecology in soil. Soil life, soil biota, soil fauna, or edaphon is a collective term that encompasses all organisms that spend a significant portion of their life cycle within ... (Study of living things in soil) [70%] 2023-12-02 [Soil biology] [Soil science]...
17. Soil gradation: In soil science, soil gradation is a classification of a coarse-grained soil that ranks the soil based on the different particle sizes contained in the soil. Soil gradation is an important aspect of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering because ... (Classification of grainy soils based on the sizes of their grains) [70%] 2023-10-28 [Sedimentology] [Granulometric analyses]...
18. Soil texture: Soil texture is a classification instrument used both in the field and laboratory to determine soil classes based on their physical texture. Soil texture can be determined using qualitative methods such as texture by feel, and quantitative methods such as ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-21 [Pedology] [Plant nutrition]...
19. Soil crust: Soil crusts are soil surface layers that are distinct from the rest of the bulk soil, often hardened with a platy surface. Depending on the manner of formation, soil crusts can be biological or physical. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-13 [Soil biology] [Soil physics]...
20. Soil regeneration: Soil regeneration, as a particular form of ecological regeneration within the field of restoration ecology, is creating new soil and rejuvenating soil health by: minimizing the loss of topsoil, retaining more carbon than is depleted, boosting biodiversity, and maintaining proper ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-10 [Environmental soil science]
21. Soil test: Soil test may refer to one or more of a wide variety of soil analysis conducted for one of several possible reasons. Possibly the most widely conducted soil tests are those done to estimate the plant-available concentrations of plant ... [70%] 2023-12-04 [Soil tests] [In situ geotechnical investigations]...
22. Soil discography: The discography of SOiL, an American rock band, consists of six studio albums, one live album, three extended plays and eleven singles. (none) [70%] 2023-01-12 [Discographies of American artists] [Rock music group discographies]...
23. Soil value: Soil value (German: Bodenwertzahl) or BWZ is a comparative assessment of soil quality used in Germany . It is determined from soil sampling data and ranges from 0 (very low) to 100 (very high). (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-07 [Pedology] [Agronomy]...
24. Soil pH: Soil pH is a measure of the acidity or basicity (alkalinity) of a soil. Soil pH is a key characteristic that can be used to make informative analysis both qualitative and quantitatively regarding soil characteristics. (Biology) [70%] 2022-11-28 [Plant nutrition] [Soil chemistry]...
25. Soil conservation: Soil conservation is the prevention of loss of the top most layer of the soil from erosion or prevention of reduced fertility caused by over usage, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination. Slash-and-burn and other unsustainable methods ... (Preservation of soil nutrients) [70%] 2022-10-19 [Environmental conservation] [Land management]...
26. Soil gas: Soil gases are the gases found in the air space between soil components. The spaces between the solid soil particles, if they do not contain water, are filled with air. (Earth) [70%] 2024-01-10 [Soil physics]
27. Soil survey: A Soil survey is the systematic examination, description, classification, and mapping of soils in an area. The USDA- NRCS Soil Survey Program produces Soil Survey Reports, which generally consist of four principal parts: (1) maps, (2) a map legend, (3 ... [70%] 2023-02-14
28. Soil horizon: A soil horizon is a layer parallel to the soil surface whose physical, chemical and biological characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath. Horizons are defined in many cases by obvious physical features, mainly colour and texture. (Soil layer whose physical characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath) [70%] 2023-12-04 [Pedology]
29. Structural Soil: Structural Soil is a medium that can be compacted to pavement design and installation requirements while permitting root growth. It is a mixture of gap-graded gravels (mostly made of crushed stone) and soil (mineral content and organic content). (Engineering) [70%] 2023-10-13 [Pavements]
30. Soil map: Soil map is a geographical representation showing diversity of soil types and/or soil properties (soil pH, textures, organic matter, depths of horizons etc.) in the area of interest. It is typically the end result of a soil survey inventory ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-04 [Pedology]
31. Soil,': Soil,' the term generally applied to that part of the earth's ' This word comes through O. soil from a Late Latin usage of solea for soil or ground, which in classic Lat. meant the sole of the foot, also ... [100%] 2022-09-02
32. Blandford (soil): Blandford soil series is the name given to a loam or sandy loam soil which has developed on glacial till in parts of southern Quebec and northern New England. It belongs to the brown podzolic soil group and occurs in ... (Soil) [70%] 2023-10-19 [Pedology] [Types of soil]...
33. Constructed soil: Constructed soils (also called fabricated soils) are mixtures of organic and mineral material derived from a number of sources, including repurposed organic waste, that are designed to approximate natural soils and provide a growing medium for plants. Constructed soils are ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-14 [Types of soil]
34. Berkshire (soil): Berkshire soil series is the name given to a well-drained loam or sandy loam soil which has developed on glacial till in parts of southern Quebec, eastern New York State and New England south to Massachusetts . It belongs to ... (Soil) [70%] 2023-09-21 [Pedology] [Types of soil]...
35. Stuttgart (soil): Stuttgart soil series is an officially designated state symbol, the State Soil of Arkansas. Stuttgart soils are named for the City of Stuttgart in southeast Arkansas. (Soil) [70%] 2023-12-19 [Pedology] [Soil in the United States]...
36. Hume (soil): Hume is a soil type that is well drained and slowly permeable. Hume is formed from the erosion of shale and sandstone. (Soil) [70%] 2023-09-29 [Pedology] [Types of soil]...
37. Cid (soil): Cid soil series is the name given to a soil which has developed from argillite or fine-grained metavolcanic rock in the Piedmont region of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is moderately well or somewhat poorly drained, and ... (Soil) [70%] 2023-10-29 [Soil in the United States] [Types of soil]...
38. Siliceous soil: Siliceous soils are formed from rocks that have silica (SiO2) as a principal constituent. The parent material of siliceous soils may include quartz sands, chert, quartzite, quartz reefs, granite, rhyolite, ademellite, dellenite, quartz sandstone, quartz siltstone, siliceous tuff, among others. (Earth) [70%] 2022-08-12 [Types of soil] [Pedology]...
39. Crider (soil): Crider is a soil series and the state soil of Kentucky. The Natural Resources Conservation Service describes Crider as a soil series with "very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on uplands. (Soil) [70%] 2023-09-18 [Pedology] [Types of soil]...
40. Paxton (soil): The Paxton soil series was established in Worcester County, Massachusetts in 1922, and is named for the town of Paxton where it was first described and mapped, and is the state soil of Massachusetts. Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic ... (Soil) [70%] 2023-10-28 [Pedology] [Soil in the United States]...
41. Tifton (soil): Tifton soil is the official state soil of the state of Georgia. A typical Tifton soil profile consists of an 11 inches (280 mm) topsoil of dark grayish brown loamy sand. (Soil) [70%] 2023-10-19 [Pedology] [Types of soil]...
42. Berkshire (soil): Berkshire soil series is the name given to a well-drained loam or sandy loam soil which has developed on glacial till in parts of southern Quebec, eastern New York State and New England south to Massachusetts. It belongs to ... (Soil) [70%] 2024-01-12 [Pedology] [Agriculture in Canada]...
43. Hydrophobic soil: Hydrophobic soil is a soil whose particles repel water. The layer of hydrophobicity is commonly found at or a few centimeters below the surface, parallel to the soil profile. (Earth) [70%] 2023-10-19 [Hydrology] [Types of soil]...