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What is the movement of surface water into rocks or soil through cracks or pore spaces?
Infiltration is the movement of surface water into rocks or soil through cracks or pore spaces.
What are the air pockets found in soil called?
Pore Spaces
What is the volume of open pore spaces in a rock?
This is known as porosity.
Why crops grown in sandy soil need frequent irrigation than the crop grown in clayey soilcrops grown in sandy soil need frequent irrigation than the crop grown in clayey soil?
Because the pore space (the space between soil particles) in sandy soil is so much larger. In sandy soils, the water is drawn by gravity downward and away from the roots quite easily, but in clay soils, the pore space is so much smaller that capillary action holds the water much more tightly. This is the same reason that clay soils flood more easily and take longer to dry out.
How do roots help make soil?
When water gets into the soil, it pours into pores. Pores are spaces in the soil that come in different sizes. The bigger the pore, the more water it holds.
Why does water move more slowly through clay than through humus?
Clay has very small pore spaces
What are the spaces called in between a pile of soil?
pore spaces
Can a rock have small spaces but not allow water to flow through?
Yes, it can have porosity, or pore spaces, but may not have permeability, or the ability for a fluid to flow through connected pore spaces.
Why is pore spaces important?
pore space is important because animals and plants need it
What is the movement of surface water into rocks or soil through cracks or pore spaces?
Infiltration is the movement of surface water into rocks or soil through cracks or pore spaces.
What type of soil has the least pore space?
clay
Why crops grown in sandy soil need frequent irrigation than the crop grown in clayey soilcrops grown in sandy soil need frequent irrigation than the crop grown in clayey soil?
Because the pore space (the space between soil particles) in sandy soil is so much larger. In sandy soils, the water is drawn by gravity downward and away from the roots quite easily, but in clay soils, the pore space is so much smaller that capillary action holds the water much more tightly. This is the same reason that clay soils flood more easily and take longer to dry out.
What are the air pockets found in soil called?
Pore Spaces
Why are permeable surfaces permeable?
Due to an interconnection in pore spaces.
What is the volume of open pore spaces in a rock?
This is known as porosity.
How do roots help make soil?
When water gets into the soil, it pours into pores. Pores are spaces in the soil that come in different sizes. The bigger the pore, the more water it holds.
When look of soil under a microscope what is between the particles?
pore spaces
