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Questions
What is leaching?
Explain the leaching.
What is leaching of soil?
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Solution 1
Leaching is a process where water-soluble inorganic nutrients go down into the soil horizon and get precipitated as unavailable salts.
Solution 2
Leaching is the natural process where heavy rainfall washes essential nutrients down into deep layers of the soil, making them unreachable by plant roots.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Distinguish between production and decomposition.
Name the type of detritus that decomposes faster. List any two factors that enhance the rate of decomposition.
The rate of decomposition of detritus is affected by the abiotic factors like availability of oxygen, pH of the soil substratum, temperature etc. Discuss.
Identify the correct statements:
- Detrivores perform fragmentation.
- The humus is further degraded by some microbes during mineralization.
- Water soluble inorganic nutrients go down into the soil and get precipitated by a process called leaching.
- The detritus food chain begins with living organisms.
- Earthworms break down detritus into smaller particles by a process called catabolism.
Choose the correct answer from the option given below:
What is catabolism in the context of decomposition?
Which of the following conditions inhibits decomposition?
Which climatic condition most strongly favours decomposition?
Which step of decomposition makes nutrients available again to producers?
What characteristic of humus allows it to act as a nutrient reservoir?
How does the presence of water-soluble substances like simple sugars and proteins affect decomposition?
