Republic of the Philippines

SULTAN KUDARAT STATE UNIVERSITY

LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL ACCESS,
EJC Montilla, Tacurong City

TRIVIA CONTEST
NAME OF THE EVENT: APEX 2021

THEME: FORTIFYING THE SOLID GROUND

EVENT: TRIVIA CONTEST

I. CONTEST GUIDELINES AND RULES

a. The Facilitator Heads will provide the Trivia Questions to the interested

participants on the official Facebook page. Each question is expected to

be posted every day until the end of the session's contest. Only

Participants who were able to answer within the allotted time are counted.

b. The Facilitator Heads will do a "Spin the wheel" with the list of names of

the participants who have chosen the same answers and to determine the

winner of the trivia contest. The verdict of the Facilitators will be final and

irrevocable

c. The Trivia Questions will be related to the main concept of the event,

which is Soil Science. The Questions will be divided into three separate

sections, which will be Easy, Moderate, and Hard.

d. The Trivia Contest will welcome all interested participants.

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 TRIVIA QUESTIONS

EASY:

1. SAND - Soil with tiny pieces of rock big enough to see with your eyes and allows

water to flow through it easily.

2. CLAY - Soil with the tiniest pieces (grains) of rock.

3. TOPSOIL - It is the most productive soil layer. 

4. SOIL - acts as a filter for underground water, filtering out pollutants.

5. WORMS - As they move through the soil, it becomes more absorbent and better

aerated too.

6. DECOMPOSITION - Rotting or breaking down of material into smaller parts.

7. INDIA - What country does have soil types that range from alluvial soil, black soil,

red soil, laterite soil to desert soil, mountain soil, saline and alkaline soil, peaty

and marshy soil?

MODERATE:

1. NAMIB DESERT- The sandy soil in Africa that has existed for more than 55

million years according to the World Wildlife Federation.

2. 500 YEARS - How many years it takes to produce just under an inch of topsoil?

3. LEACHING - The movement of nutrients and other materials through the soil

profile.

4. CLIMATE - Soil Varys depending on the temperature and moisture amounts

cause different patterns of weathering and leaching

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 5. WEATHERING - The process in which it breaks down rocks, as well as on other

materials specified in the Earth’s Surface.

6. SOIL TEXTURE - It is determined by the particle sizes and proportions inside the

soil.

7. 45% OF MINERALS - The Percentage of the Minerals for a good garden soil

DIFFICULT:

1. ELUVIATION - _________ is the process of moving suspended or dissolved soil

material from one master horizon to another.

2. THICKER - Soils that grow in flat areas are often _________ than those that

grow in sloping areas.

3. TEMPERATURE, PRECIPITATION - _________ and _________ are two

significant climate variables.

4. MASTER HORIZON - The concept "_________ _________" refers to the layers

found within a soil.

5. In what master horizon does Organic waste in various stages of degradation

characterizes?

- O HORIZON

6. In what master horizon does hummus mixed with mineral and rock fragment

characterizes?

- A HORIZON

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7. What are the 12 major soil orders of Soil Taxonomy?

 Alfisols  Mollisols

 Andisols  Inceptisols

 Aridisols  Oxisols

 Entisols  Spodosols

 Gelisols  Ultisols

 Histosols  Vertisol