Soil Order Characteristics

Frage	Antworten
Highly weathered, would be found in a tropical rainforest	Oxisols
Coarse-textured, acid parent materials, would be found under a coniferous forest	Spodosols
Clay accumulation, found in warm to tropical climates, such as Georgia	Ultisols
Found in cool to hot humid areas, often develop under native deciduous forests	Alfisols
Has a humus-rich surface horizon, forms under prairie grasses	Mollisols
Goes through periods of drying and wetting, shrink-swell clays	Vertisols
Water deficiency is a major characteristic, is usually alkaline	Aridisols
One or more thick layers of organic soil material, ranges from peat to muck	Histosols
Found in cold temperatures for much of the year, little profile development	Gelisols
Usually formed on volcanic ash and cinders	Andisols
Beginning of a B horizon, little other profile development	Inceptisols
Very little profile development, extremely diverse group of soils	Entisols

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