Wind transported materials if it is silt dominated is__________?

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1. Rocks and weathered materials transported by ___________ ,act as initial materials for soil formation?

   A. Water
   B. Wind
   C. Glaciers
   D. All of the above

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2. Weathering process-physical, chemical, and biological _______________, the rocks and minerals into simpler products which either accumulate in place or are transported to other places where they become soil parent materials?

   A. Disintegrate
   B. Disentigrate
   C. Decompose
   D. Both a & c

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3. Silt stones consists of grains whose size range from____________________?

   A. 0.625 mm
   B. 0.004 mm
   C. 0.0625 mm
   D. Both b & c

4. During decomposition of organic matter, inititial decomposition is dominated by:__________?

   A. Actinomycetes
   B. Bacteria
   C. Fungi
   D. Both B & C

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5. Depending on the percentage of sand, silt, clay, soils are divided into _______ textural classes:

   A. 12
   B. 13
   C. 14
   D. 09

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6. ___________ , considered a perfect soil, is a mixture of silt, clay and sand:

   A. Clay
   B. Sandy loam
   C. Loamy sand
   D. Loam

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7. In Pakistan, Indus plains are formed from ___________ parent material which was transported by Indus river and its tributaries from Himalayas?

   A. Till
   B. Moraine
   C. Colluvial
   D. None of the above

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8. The wearing away of the land surface by wind, water, ice or other geological agents is called____________________?

   A. Seepage
   B. Soil erosion
   C. Soil contamination
   D. All the above

9. Material deposited by the wind is called____________________?

   A. Regolith
   B. Colluvial
   C. Alluvium
   D. Eolian

10. The first mechanism to start in the wind erosion is_________?

    A. Creep
    B. Saltation
    C. Siltation
    D. None of these

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