Luokat: Kaikki - forest - erosion - land - classification

jonka LUJAN BAJINAY.CALDERON 4 vuotta sitten

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SOILS

The formation of soil is an incredibly slow process, taking about 2,000 years to form just 10 centimeters. The global economic value of soil is immense, with a demand estimated at 490 billion dollars.

SOILS

SOILS

10cm are form in 2.000 years

The available land air per habitat
Will reduce by half by 2050
Hectares of land chage of owner every year
This people are the poorest

So they distroy forest because they need land to live

In a world cost
The demand of soils is of 490 billion dollars

Because soils are invaluable

In 2011
24 million tones were lost

3.4 tonnes per person were used

Every year 13 million hectares of forest are cut down
adding manucultures and farming, which acelerates erosion

Soil distribution

This one is proadic and patchy
It have a group of factors that influence soils

CLORPT

Time

Parent material

Volcanic rock

Relief

Change in elevation

Orfganisms

Climate

Clasification of soils

Oxisol
Low fertility but very development horizon

Rainforest soil

Mollisol
Most fertile soil is the best for agriculture

is a grassland soil

Aridisol
Is a desert soil and has low amount of water
Ultisol
located in subtropical and humid places

Iron makes it red

Alfisol
Is in Broadleaf and decideous fores
Spodosol
Is low fertility and coniferous forest
Gelisol
Is pernafrost and is more close to the surface
Inceptisol
Slightly more horizon development
Entisol
Has no development of soil horizon

Layers of the soil

R horizon
Where there is only rock
C horizon
Where bedrock is degrading into soil
B horizon
Farthes plant roots will go for soils
A horizon
Where real surface soil is and there are organisms
O horizon
Is the uppermost and y more organic

They can be considered as

Silt
is between the other two
Sand
is the biggest
Clay
is the smallest

this ones have dofferent propeties

If a soil is more silt has characteristics of the other two soils

Is a soil is more sand will be worse retain of water bur easily plant growing

If a soil is more clay will retain more water but difficulty on plants growing

if a soil has 25% sand, 40% silt, 35% clay

is considered as Clay loam

created by rocks disposed by

Erosion
Smaller socks are carried from bigger rocks

By wind or water

Weathering
Breaking rocks into smaller rocks

By phisical or chemical process