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Soil Texture Triangle Worksheet

The document provides instructions for students to use a soil texture triangle diagram to identify different soil types based on their percentages of sand, silt, and clay. It then lists 10 questions for students to answer by applying the soil triangle, such as identifying soil types with given sand/silt/clay percentages, determining the best soils for vegetable production or landfill sites, and explaining characteristics of productive and resilient soil types.

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Soil Texture Triangle Worksheet

The document provides instructions for students to use a soil texture triangle diagram to identify different soil types based on their percentages of sand, silt, and clay. It then lists 10 questions for students to answer by applying the soil triangle, such as identifying soil types with given sand/silt/clay percentages, determining the best soils for vegetable production or landfill sites, and explaining characteristics of productive and resilient soil types.

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Y11 ESS Worksheet

Topic: Using Soil Texture Triangle

Instruction:
Use the Soil Texture Triangle to answer the questions below and submit to MB right after
your class ends.

Figure 1. Soil Texture Triangle

1. State the soil type with 40% Sand, 40% Silt and 20% Clay.
Loam

2. State the soil type with 60% Sand, 25% Silt and 15% Clay.
Sandy Clay Loam
3. State the soil type with 20% Sand, 30% Silt and 50% Clay.
Silty Clay/Silty Clay Loam

4. State the soil type with 15 % Sand, 45% Silt and 40% Clay.
Silty Clay

5. State the soil type with 10% Sand, 85% Silt and 5% Clay.
Silt

6. Outline which of these soils would be best for vegetable production?


Silty Clay Loam/Loam

7. Outline which of these soils would be most vulnerable to become waterlogged from
flooding?
Sandy Clay Loam

8. Explain which soil would be best for locating a landfill waste disposal site.
Silty Clay?

9. Describe two characteristics of a soil with high primary productivity.


- Darker colours
- Low levels of sand

10. Justify why a loam soil might be most resilient to climate change.
- Has the most stable base and is not as vulnerable to changes.

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