BIOLOGY 2F03 Lecture Notes - Soil Horizon, Parent Material, Biome
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Why horses and cattle help restore guanacaste forest of costa rica: horses and cattle eat seeds and fertilize the soil to restore the forest. What is the most obvious foundation of life on land: soil. Organic, litter on top, fine litter deeper (pollen, dead organisms) Clay, iron, aluminum, silicates and soluble organics leach out gradually. Materials leached from a settle in b. deposits may form banding patterns. Soil horizons result from interactions between climate, vegetation, animal activities, and geology. Any pattern you see reflects recent (scale of 102-103 yrs) history. Questions from 1m03 you know what causes winters and summers as well as deserts and wet areas: earth"s rotation and 3-cell model. But what is affected by the earth"s rotation: winds, ocean currents. Which direction does the earth rotate in: from west to east. Where is the earth surface movement fastest: equator. Winds in the northern hemisphere deflected to the right of their direction of travel.
