Crop Science Terms

EDU 250 Agriculture

Fall 2017
Cassidy Jernigan
 Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
 1 - $100

soil texture, between 0.05 and 2.0mm

What is sand?
 1 - $200

soil texture, between 0.05 and 0.002mm

What is silt?
 1 - $300

soil texture, less than 0.002mm

What is clay?
 1 - $400

a soil class containing of all three soil

textures

What is loam?
 1 - $500

smallest area you can take a soil survey

from

What is a Pedon?
 2 - $100

soilconsisting of more than 50% organic

matter

What is peat?
 2 - $200

measure of the ability of a soil to carry

out particular ecological functions

What is soil quality?

 2 - $300

vertical
section exposing a set of soil
horizons

What is soil profile?

 2 - $400

horizon A of soil

What is topsoil?
 2 - $500

horizon B of soil

What is subsoil?
 3 - $100

the
matter from which the soil was made
from

What is parent material?

 3 - $200

living and dead organisms in the soil

What is organic matter?

 3 - $300

plants, animals, humans, and microbes

What is biota?
 3 - $400

attraction of water molecules to solid

surfaces

What is adhesion?
 3 - $500

attraction of water molecules to each

other

What is cohesion?
 4 - $100

soil crumbles with ease

What is friable?
 4 - $200

waterretained in soil between field

capacity and wilting coefficient

What is plant available water?

 4 - $300

soil pores with a diameter less than

0.06mm

What is micropores?
 4 - $400

soilpores with a diameter greater then

0.06mm

What is macropores?
 4 - $500

study of soil as natural bodies

What is pedology?
 5 - $100

typeof irrigation that sprays water into

the air

What is sprinkler?
 5 - $200

drip style of irrigation

What is microirrigation?
 5 - $300

movement of water from the atmosphere

to the Earth and back to the atmosphere

What is the hydrologic cycle?

 5 - $400

anunderground layer of permeable rock

that holds water

What is an aquifer?
 5 - $500

level
below which soil is saturated with
water

What is a water table?

 Final Jeopardy

the practice of eating soil

What is geophagy ?