Silt intermediate sized particles 3. Clay finer particles, smaller diameter 4. Loam a mixture of sand, silt, and clay 5. Show soil triangle overhead. Not much available to plants.
Clays have very high surface area, small pore spaces, water adheres to soils.
Water held so tightly that much is not available to plants. Loams, silts are ideal textures for holding capillary water that plants can use. D. Soil structure -how soil particles are arranged together. Patterns of soil clumps and air space. Soil particles clump together in a range of shapes and sizes.