Soil

• Soil types

  • Alluvial Soil
  • Red Soil
  • Black Soil
  • Laterite Soil
  • Desert Soil
  • Mountain Soil
  • Forest Soil
  • Marshy or Peaty Soil
• Soil

  • Thin layer composed of various elements on the surface of the earth
  • Mixture of minerals and biotic elements which have the capacity to grow and develop vegetation
• Soil formation

  1. Denudation of rocks

  2. Disintegration or decay of vegetation or insects

  3. Addition of humus
• Climatic impact is important and widespread in soil formation
• Soil formed out of the same parental rocks under different climatic influence is different
• Soils are classified on the basis of their colour, climate, parental rocks, structure, humus etc.