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  2. Begin by reviewing the 'Essential Question' section. Reflect on how soil is made and consider how you might imitate this process during your activity.
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Soils form through the following set of processes: Addition. Organic matter accumulation: Things die on the surface (plants, animals) and below the surface (plant roots, burrowing animals) Loss. Transformation. Leaching = movement of dissolved matter via groundwater in a soil.
Joffe (1936) stated that the soil-forming factors set the conditions for internal soil-forming processes. Shaw (1932) prepared the first soil-forming factor equation: In this equation, M=parent material, C=climatic factors, V=organic life, T=time, and D=modification of the soil by erosion and deposition.
Jennys model (idea) is consistent with others in that it indicates five factors of soil formation: (1) climate (cl); (2) organisms (o); (3) topography (r); (4) parent material (p); and (5) time (t).
∎ Jennys state factor equation for soil genesis: S = f (C, O, R, P, T, . . .) C = Climate O = Organisms R = Relief (topography) P = Parent Material T = Time . .
Soils form over thousands of years through local interactions of climate, geology, hydrology, and management. Physical and chemical alteration (weathering) break down parent materials (solid rocks and drift deposits). Finally, biological cycles of growth and decay produce the extra critical ingredient: organic matter.

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It may take hundreds to thousands of years. It will take longer in colder and drier regions than in warmer and wetter regions. This is due to the soil forming processes such as translocation and transformation being slower in cold and/or dry areas.

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