Soil

We learned about soil and the 12 soil orders of the road.  The soils are classified by a chart called a soil diagram chart.  This allows the soil found to be classified to either clay, loam or sand and any variation in between.  This is a very basic chart to read as you simply match the numbers up and move inwards from the particular variation. 











We then learned abut the Munsell Soil Chart which can can determine the soil type based on its color or more specifically the hue and chroma.  This was developed by a professor and is used by the USDA.





Lastly, the 12 soil orders of the world were talked about and the list is shown below.  The common soil type for Georgia is utisol.  The 12 soil orders of the world are alfisol, andisol, ardisol, entisol, gelisol, histisol, inceptisol, mollisol, oxisol, spodosol, ultisol and vertisol.