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प्रश्न
What is leaching?
Explain the leaching.
What is leaching of soil?
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उत्तर १
Leaching is a process where water-soluble inorganic nutrients go down into the soil horizon and get precipitated as unavailable salts.
उत्तर २
Leaching is the natural process where heavy rainfall washes essential nutrients down into deep layers of the soil, making them unreachable by plant roots.
संबंधित प्रश्न
The major reservoir of carbon on earth is ______.
Decomposition is slow detritus is rich in ______.
The process of mineralisation by micro organisms helps in the release of ______.
What is common to earthworm, mushroom, soil mites and dung beetle in an ecosystem?
The rate of decomposition of detritus is affected by the abiotic factors like availability of oxygen, pH of the soil substratum, temperature etc. Discuss.
Observe the contents 1, 2, 3 and 4 of soil samples A, B and C shown in the graph. If the temperature and soil moisture of all soil samples are identical, which soil sample (s) will show faster decomposition?

1 indicates lignin content, 2 indicates chitin, 3 indicates nitrogen content, and 4 indicates sugar content
What is catabolism in the context of decomposition?
Which organisms are primarily responsible for fragmentation in the decomposition process?
Which of the following conditions inhibits decomposition?
Which step of decomposition makes nutrients available again to producers?
