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This page is a Glossary of all of the vocabulary words that we didn't know and found quite interesting. This can help you in explaining some things.
 Accumulation: increase or growth by addition especially when continuous or repeated. Alkaline: relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7. (about 50% hydrogen content) Aluminum: element that has good electrical and thermal conductivity, high reflectivity, and resistance to oxidation and is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust where it always occurs in combination.  Bedrock: The solid rock underlying unconsolidated surface materials.  Capacity: the maximum amount or number that can be contained. Carbon: a nonmetallic chiefly tetravalent element found native (as in the diamond and graphite) or as a constituent of coal, petroleum, and asphalt, of limestone and other carbonates , and of organic compounds or obtained artificially in varying degrees of purity especially as carbon black, lampblack, activated carbon, charcoal, and coke.  Decayed: to decrease gradually in quantity, activity, or force Decomposed: to separate into components or basic elements. Decomposer: any of various organisms (as many bacteria and fungi) that return constituents of organic substances to ecological cycles by feeding on and breaking down dead protoplasm  Eluviation: The lateral or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil when rainfall exceeds evaporation. Endangered: to bring danger or peril.  Fertile: capable of sustaining abundant plant growth.  Habitat: the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows Humus: brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic portion of soil.  Inorganic: being or composed of matter other than plant or animal. Iron: a heavy malleable ductile magnetic silver-white metallic element that readily rusts in moist air, occurs native in meteorites and combined in most igneous rocks, is the most used of metals, and is vital to biological processes  Larvae: the early form of an animal (as a frog or sea urchin) that at birth or hatching is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose before, assuming the adult characters.  Minerals: a natural reoccurring, inorganic, crystalline, solid with a composition that can be expressed by a chemical symbol or a formula.  Organic: nothing or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon. Organic matter: material that was living once that isn't living anymore. Organism: a complex structure of interdependent and subordinate elements whose relations and properties are largely determined by their function in the whole.  Pedocals: A soil of semiarid and arid regions that is rich in calcium carbonate and lime. Pedalfers: Soil rich in alumina and iron and deficient in carbonates, found in and characteristic of humid regions.  Residual soil: an internal aftereffect of experience or activity that influences later behavior.  Silt: earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as sediment. Soil: the upper layer of earth that may be dug or plowed and in which plants grow. Soil Profile: a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.  Variations: divergence in the characteristics of an organism from the species or population norm or average Vegetation: plant life or total plant cover (as of an area).  Windbreaks: a growth of trees or shrubs serving to break the force of wind. |