Soil and Water

Question 1

What is the O layer?

Answer 1

Litter layer

Question 2

What is the A layer?

Answer 2

Mineral surface horizon, dark colored, granular structure.

Question 3

What is the E layer?

Answer 3

Strongly leached horizon, light colored, platy structure.

Question 4

What is the B layer?

Answer 4

Subsoil horizon of maximum development, “brown”, blocky structure.

Question 5

What is the C layer?

Answer 5

Weathered “parent material”, “brown”, massive structure.

Question 6

What is the R layer?

Answer 6

Hard bedrock.

Question 7

What is a soil horizon?

Answer 7

A unique soil made up of distinctive layers.

Question 8

What is a soil profile?

Answer 8

The various horizons or sequence of horizons that make up the soil profile.

Question 9

What are the three size classes of soil particels?

Answer 9

Sand, Silt, Clay

Question 10

What does SPZ stand for?

Answer 10

Stream Protection Zone

Question 11

What does BMP stand for?

Answer 11

Best Management Practices

Question 12

What is the SPZ of a Class 1 stream?

Answer 12

75 feet on either side of the ordinary high water mark.

Question 13

What is the SPZ of a class 2 stream?

Answer 13

The protection zone of a class 2 stream is 30 feet.

Question 14

What is the SPZ of a class 3 stream?

Answer 14

5 feet is the SPZ for a class 3 stream.