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"through outgassing from volcanoes

Streams picked up dissolved salts on land surfaces and carried them down to the oceans

"oceans (Salt)

"Water evaporates into the sky

Surface runoff flows into a river. Groundwater is precipitation absorbed into the ground.

on a surface runoff or infiltration.

Soil

Root zone aborbs water and reduces infiltration.

Irrigation is artificial watering.

how would that affect each term in the soil water balance? "

determined by the properties of the surface itself.

"Tree

the soil becomes compacted and surface runoff greatly increases.

"reduced recharge

This works because grasses have much shallower root systems than trees.

The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.

"it is a highly complex

"it is a highly complex

They are burrowing into the B horizon where nutrients have been deposited and carrying those essential elements back to the surface.

"This process of eluviation and illuviation is particularly pronounced and deep in the tropics. Aluminum

clay

may provide clues to the processes that affect soil however. Red colors are usually a product of iron oxidation. White often indicates that iron has been removed. Black soils usually (but not always) have a high organic content.

Acid in the soil strips nutrients from colloids and allows them to be removed in solution as water filters downward.

"If water is not added to the soil

"Soils are classified using a hierarchical system