### soil:

Compacted soil
* are a problem for blueberries, which prefer loose, friable soil
  - also harder to work, taking much more power to plow
* can benefit as seaweed mulch breaks down
  - cut off the necessary oxygen supply to a tree's roots
  - slow entry of water, causing water to either stand on the surface or run off
* common characteristic of a new building site.
* has few air and water pore spaces and tends to be poorly drained
  - no oxygen, and nothing can grow
* have fewer and smaller roots.
* holds water because there is less space through which excess water can drain.
* increases thatch and stresses lawn grass.
* is also slower to absorb and hold water
  - difficult for roots to penetrate
  - generally structureless or plate soils, pressed into a solid lump
  - the main cause of the spiral root problems
* restrict root growth and nutrient absorption and result in lower yields.

Constable soil
* are common associates where ortstein layers are prominent.
* have ortstein.

Contaminated soil
* can feed groundwater contamination.
* requires the largest amount of energy to melt.

Cool soil
* can increase the incidence of root rots.
* slow down the germination and establishment process.

Crusted soil
* makes it difficult for seedlings to emerge.
* prevents the flowers from burying themselves in the soil.

Cryluha soil
* are on sloping, dissected pediments, fan aprons, and toeslope positions.
* lack argillic horizons.

Cryptobiotic soil
* is very fragile.
* living groundcover that forms the foundation of high desert plant life.

Dacosta soil
* are on slightly lower or similar positions.
* have an argillic horizon.

Decross soil
* are deep with overthickened mollic epipedons
  - on relict alluvial fans, fan aprons, and pediment toeslopes
* have a cryic temperature regime and an ustic moisture regime.

Deep soil
* can hold more plant nutrients and water than shallow soils with similar textures.
* favour the development of vertical roots and long-term survival of the crown.
* has more room for roots than soils with bedrock near the surface.
* have less potential for contamination than shallow soils.
* hold more water and growth continues longer during dry periods.
* tend to produce excessively vigorous trees, again with lower yields
  - also with lower yields

Different soil
* absorb water at different rates.
* contain varying amounts of nutrients.
* contains different things.
* erode at different rates because of their inherent characteristics.
* have different colors
  - watering needs
* microenvironments support different kinds of microphytic crusts.
* vary in their ability to accept and absorb liquid from the septic system.

Dormont soil
* are on hilltops and hillsides.
* have low chroma mottles in the subsoil and substratum
  - slow or moderately slow permeability

Dry soil
* can act like a sponge to bring groundwater to the surface.
* has the opposite effect on rainfall.
* tend to absorb more of the meltwater than wet soils.

Durand soil
* are on undulating to hilly till plains and moraines
  - well drained
* have a mid-continental climate with hot summers and cold winters

Elco soil
* are moderately well drained and are on similar landform positions
  - on side slopes and some ridge tops on loess covered till plains and moraines
* have the lower part of their sola formed in a paleosol.

### soil:

Fertile soil
* are able to provide the nutrients required for plant growth
  - the important resource for agriculture
* contains humerus
  - the nutrients in a readily available form that plants require for growth
* encourage succulent new growth that is palatable and nutritious.
* formed from loess are good for farming because they contain few rocks.
* is the place where seeds can grow perfectly.
* prerequisite for healthy plants.
* yield the best crops, whether they are corn, soybeans, deer, or pheasants.