The three most commonly used soil names are very simple. They are sand soil, loam soil, and clay soil. Sandy soil is the least dense soil. Loam soil is the soil that crops can grow best in. It is made up of sandy soil and clay soil.
Clay soil is the densest soil because of the small size of non-living particles.
Some people are more specific and call soil by scientific names. For example, scientists use entisol soil for when it is mostly found in a river valley. Vertisol soil is found in grasslands in seasonally dry seasons. Inceptisol soil is found worldwide and found mostly in mountain areas. Aridisol soil is also found worldwide and mostly found in desert areas.