Soil Taxonomy

Question 1

Who developed Soil Taxonomy?

Answer 1

USDA (US Department of Agriculture)

Question 2

“I AM A SUAVE HOG”

Answer 2

Inceptisols
Andisols
Mollisols
Alfisols
Spodosols
Ultisols
Ardisols
Vertisols
Entisols
Histosols
Oxisols
Gelisols

Question 3

Which soil has shrinking-swelling clay producing wide and deep cracks?

Answer 3

Vertisols

Question 4

Which soil has a mollic diagnostic horizon?

Answer 4

Mollisols

Question 5

Which soil has a high organic matter content?

Answer 5

Histosols

Question 6

Which soil has an ochric diagnostic horizon?

Answer 6

Ardisols

Question 7

Which soil is drier than wilting point more than half the time and never moist for as long as 3 months?

Answer 7

Ardisols

Question 8

Which soil has a spodic diagnostic horizon?

Answer 8

Spodosols

Question 9

Which soil has siliceous, course-textured parent material?

Answer 9

spodosols

Question 10

“Soil of the tropics and subtropics”

Answer 10

Oxisols

Question 11

Which soil has low cation exchange capacity? (CEC)

Answer 11

Oxisols

Question 12

which soils habe an argilic diagnostic horizon?

Answer 12

Ultisols and Alfisols

Question 13

Which soil has a med-high supply of bases?

Answer 13

Alfisols

Question 14

This soil is usually moist with pedogenic horizons of alteration of parent material but not of illuviation

Answer 14

Inceptisols

Question 15

Which soil is found in any climate on very recent geomorphic surfaces and is classified as “recently formed soil”?

Answer 15

Entisols

Question 16

This soil has permafrost within 1m depth or if with cryoperturbation, up to 2m depth

Answer 16

Gelisols

Question 17

This soil is developed from volcanic ejecta

Answer 17

Andisols

Question 18

Colloidal fraction of this soil is domonated by allophane and/or Al-humus compounds

Answer 18

Andisols