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Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws - courtesy of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture
The Glossarist Directory of where
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Agricultue - Index for CanSIS/glossary
GLOSSARY TERMSA horizon, ablation till, absorbed water, acid soil, active, adaptive, adsorbed, adsorption, aerate, aeration,
aerobic, aggradation, aggregate, agronomy, air porosity, air-dry, alkali soil, alkaline soil, alkalization, allophane, alluvial fan, alluvium, alpine soil,
amendment, amino acid, ammonification, ammonium fixation, amorphous mineral, anaerobic, angular cobbly, anion exchange capacity,
anisotropic mass, antagonism, antibiotic, apparent density, apparent specific gravity, arable soil, arthropod, artificial manure, Atterberg limits,
autotrophic, available nutrient, available water, azonal soil, B horizon, badland, bar, base course, base saturation percentage, beach deposits,
bearing capacity, bed, bedrock, bench terrace, biosequence, bisect, bisequa, blocky, blowing sand, blown-out land, blowout, bog, bog iron,
border-strip irrigation, bottomland, boulders, breccia, Brunisolic, bulk specific gravity, buried soil, butte, C horizon, calcareous soil, calciphytes,
caliche, capability class, capability subclass, capillary conductivity, capillary fringe, capillary porosity, capillary potential, capillary water,
carbon cycle, carbon-nitrogen ratio, category, catena, cation exchange, cation exchange capacity, cemented-indurate, channery,
check-basin irrigation, Chernozemic, chiseling, chisel, subsoil, chitin, chlorite group, chroma, chronosequence, clay, clay films, clay loam,
clay mineral, clayey, claypan, climatic index, climax, climosequence, clod, coarse fragments, coarse sand, coarse sandy loam, coarse texture,
cobble, cobblestone, cobbly, colloid, colluvium, colony, color, columnar, commensalism, compact soil, compost, compressibility,
concentrated flow, concrete frost, concretion, consistence, consolidation, constitutive enzyme, coprogenous earth, coprolite,
corrected lime potential, corrugation irrigation, cradle knoll, crag and tail, creep, crevasse fillings, critical density, critical void ratio,
cross-bedding, crotovina, crushing strength, crust, cryic layer, cryology, Cryosolic, cryoturbation, cuesta, Cultivation, cumulo layer, Cutan,
Darcy's law, Dark Brown, Dark Gray, Dark Gray Gleysolic, deflation, deflocculate, degradation, dehydrogenase, dehydrogenation, delta,
denitrification, depleted soil, diatomaceous earth, diatoms, differential water capacity, diffusivity, direct count, discharge velocity, disintegration,
disperse, dispersion medium, diversion dam, double layer, drag, drain, drain tile, drumlin, dry aggregate, dryland farming, dry-weight percentage,
dunes, duric, dust mulch, dy, dynamometer, Dystric Brunisol, ecology, ectotrophic mycorrhiza, edaphic, edaphology,
effective cation exchange capacity, electrokinetic potential, eluvial horizon, eluviation, end moraine, endoenzyme, endotrophic,
endotrophic mycorrhiza, enrichment culture, enzyme, eolian deposit, equivalent diameter, equivalent weight of a soil colloid, erode, erodible,
erosion, erosion classes, erosion pavement, erratic, esker, eubacteriales, Eutric Brunisol, eutrophic, evapotranspiration, excessive drainage,
exchange acidity, exchange capacity, exchangeable cation percentage, exchangeable phosphate, exchangeable potassium,
exchangeable sodium percentage, exoenzyme, extracellular enzyme, external drainage, F layer, facultative anaerobe, fallow land, fermentation,
Ferro-Humic Podzol, fertilizer, fibric , Fibrisol, field capacity, fifteen-atmosphere percentage, fifteen-bar percentage, film water, fine clay,
fine earth, fine sand, fine sandy loam, fine texture, fines, firm, first bottom, fixation, fixed phosphorus, flagellum, flaggy, flagstone, flooding,
floodplain, flow velocity, fluvial deposits, fluvioglacial, foliar diagnosis, Folisol, forest floor, forest soils, fragic, fragipan, free acidity, free oxides,
freezing index, , friable, frost action, frost heave, fulvic acids, fungi, furrow irrigation, genesis, genetic, genetic pan, genus, geological erosion,
germicide, gilgai, GIS, glacial drift, glacial till, glaciofluvial deposits, gleyed soil, gleysation, Gleysol, Gleysolic, glycophytes, grain density,
grain-size analysis, grain-size distribution, granular, granule, gravel, gravelly, gravitational potential, gravitational water, Gray Brown Luvisol,
Gray Luvisol, great group, green manure, green-manure crop, ground fire, ground moraine, groundwater, gully, gully erosion, gyttja, H layer,
habitat, halomorphic soil, halophytic vegetation, hardpan layer, heat capacity, heat flux density, heavy clay, heavy soil, heterotrophic,
honeycomb frost, hue, humic acids, Humic Gleysol, humic layer, Humic Podzol, humification, humin, Humisol, Humo-Ferric Podzol, humus,
hydration, hydraulic conductivity, hydraulic gradient, hydraulic head, hydric layer, hydrogenic soil, hydrologic cycle, hydrolysis, hydromorphic soil,
hydrous mica, hygroscopic coefficient, hygroscopic water, hymatomelanic acid, igneous rock, illite, illuvial horizon, illuviation, immature soil,
immobilization, impeded drainage, impervious, indicator plants, induced pan, indurated layer, infiltration, infiltration capacity, infiltration rate,
infiltration velocity, infiltrometer, inhibition, inoculation, inorganic soil, interstratified clay mineral, intrazonal soil, intrinsic permeability, ion,
ion activity, iron pan, irrigation, irrigation efficiency, irrigation methods, isodyne, isomorphous substitution, kame, kaolin group, kettle, L layer,
lacustrine deposit, lagg, lamina, land, land classification, land type, landforms, landscape, landslide, landslip, latitude zonation, lattice energy,
lattice structure, leaching, levee, lichen, lime concretion, lime potential, lime requirement, limno layer, liquefaction, liquid limit, lithic layer,
lithosequence, loam, loamy, loamy coarse sand, loamy fine sand, loamy sand, loamy very fine sand, loess, lower plastic limit, Luvic Gleysol,
Luvisolic, lysimeter, macronutrient, macroscopic velocity, made land, manure, map unit, marl, marsh, mass wasting, matric potential, mature soil,
maximum water-holding capacity, mechanical analysis, medium texture, Melanic Brunisol, mellow soil, mesa, mesic layer, Mesisol, mesophile,
metamorphic rock, mica, microaerophile, microclimate, microfauna, microflora, micronutrient, microorganism, microrelief, midden, mine dump,
mine wash, mineral, mineral soil, mineralization, mineralogical analysis, minor element, miscellaneous land type, moder,
moderately coarse texture, moderately fine texture, moisture equivalent, moisture-release curve, moisture-retention curve,
moisture-volume percentage, moisture-weight percentage, montmorillonite, montmorillonite group, mor, moraine, mottled zone, mottles,
mottling, muck soil, mudflow slide, mulch, mulch farming, mull, Munsell color system, mycelium, mycorrhiza, natural erosion, neutral soil,
nitrate reduction, nitrification, nitrogen assimilation, nitrogen cycle, nitrogen fixation, noncapillary porosity, normal erosion, Oil wasteland,
one-third atmosphere percentage, one-third bar percentage, organic phosphorus, ortstein, osmotic potential, Osmotic pressure, Outwash,
ovendry soil, Overconsolidated soil deposit, pans, parent material, parent rock, partial sterilization, particle density, particle size,
particle-size analysis, particle-size distribution, peat, peat soil, ped, pedogenesis, pedology, peneplain, penetrability, perched water table,
percolation, periglacial, permafrost, permafrost table, permanent charge, pesticides, pF, photomap, phyllosilicates, physical properties of soils,
physical weathering, physiosorption, phytogenic soils, phytometer, phytomorphic soils, pH-dependent cation exchange capacity, piedmont,
piezometer, piezometric surface, pile, placic, planisaic, plastic limit, plastic soil, plasticity constants, plasticity number, plasticity range,
plate count, platy, plow pan , Podzol, Podzolic, podzolic B, podzolization, pore space, pore-size distribution, porosity, potassium fixation,
potassium-supplying power of soils, potential acidity, potential cation exchange capacity, potential evapotranspiration, precipitation interception,
preconsolidation pressure, pressure membrane, pressure or induced pan, prestress, primary mineral, primary particles, prismatic, productive soil,
protozoa, psammophytes, psychrophile, pure culture, quick clay, quicksand, R layer, rainfall interception, rawhumus, , regolith, Regosol,
Regosolic, relief, rendzina, residual material, residual shrinkage, residual soil, reversion, reworked, rhizobia, rhizoid, rhizoplane, rhizosphere,
rill, rill erosion, riverwash, rock drumlin, rockland, rough broken land, runoff, saline soil, saline-alkali soil, salinization, salt-affected soil, sand,
sandy, sandy clay, sandy clay loam, sandy loam, saturate, saturation extract, second bottom, secondary mineral, sedimentary rock, seepage,
self-mulching soil, sensitivity, sequum, serial dilution, shaly, shear stress, sheet erosion, silica-alumina ratio, silica-sesquioxide ratio, silt, silt loam,
silting, siltstone, silty clay, silty clay loam, single-grain structure, site, site index, sixty-centimetre tension, slaty, slick spots, slickens, slickenside,
smectite, sodic soil, soil, soil structure types, soil-formation factors, solclime, solifluction, Solod, solodized soil, Solodized Solonetz, Solonetz,
Solonetzic, soluble-sodium percentage, Sombric Brunisol, sorted drift, splash erosion, spoil bank, sprinkler irrigation, sterilization, sticky point,
Stokes' law, stones, stoniness, stony, stony land, strata, stratification, stratified drift, stratum, stress, strip cropping, structure index, stubble mulch,
subirrigation, subsoiling, substrate, subsurface tillage, sulfofication, summation curve, surface runoff, surface sealing, surface soil, sustained yield,
swamp, symbiosis, symmetry concentration, symmetry value, synergism, talud, talus, taxa, taxon, tensiometer, terrace, terric layer,
textural classification, thermal analysis, thermal conductivity, thermogenic soils, thermophile, thermosequence, threshold moisture content,
tidal flats, tier, tight soil, tile drain, till, tillage, topography, toposaic, toposequence, topsoil, total potential, total pressure, trace element, traffic pan,
transitional soil, truncated, tuff, tundra, tundra soil, underground runoff, undifferentiated soil map unit, unsaturated flow, upper plastic limit,
urban land, valley train, varve, vermiculite group, vertical zonation, very coarse sand, very fine sand, very fine sandy loam, void, void ratio,
volume weight, wasteland, water table, waterlogged, water-retention curve, water-stable aggregate, weathering, wild flooding, wild land,
wilting coefficient, wilting point, windbreak, xerophytes, young soil, zeta potential, zonal soil , zymogenous flora.
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