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- Most of the January precipitation is snow, whereas in June most falls as rain in Jasper National Park
- It is not a constant change due to yearly weather changes impacting the amount of ablation and accumulation
- The difference between the amount of accumulation and ablation over a one year period in a glacier
- manifestation of the tendency of soils to group together in peds
- what the c-horizon is dominated or saturated with
- horizon predominantly made up of parent rock material and is characteristically massive and dense
- good soil that has enough portions of sand, silt, and clay
- rough estimate of the soil volume occupied by water and air
- what the amount of water and air in the soil volume is dependent on
- commonly used in graphically representing the relative amounts of the different sizes of soil
- vertically-oriented pillar-like peds varying in height and diameter; could either have flat angular tops or subrounded to rounded tops
- advances root growth and helps plants resist diseases
- commonly used for chemical analysis (and soil characteristics) due to its greatest surface area
- layers predominantly composed of parent rock fragments
- one of the most volcano-ridden spots on earth
- part of the horizon of a soil profile that normally has the most abundant organic material content
- needed for plants to form new cells and is essential to total plant development
- provide the essential nutrients for plants to grow
- one way of determining the relative amounts of each grain size
- most essential nutrient during early plant development