Most abundant minerals containing Al, O and Si

Capacity to sustain plant life with required nutrients

High surface area is equivalent to high soil holding capacity

The process of which running water on the soil surface, wind, ice or other agents transport soil from one place to another

Also called as nutrient mining

Ammonium ion to nitrite will become nitrogen gas

Conversion from NH4 to NH3 or ammonium to ammonia

Conversion from inorganic materials back to organic

Denitrification caused by what kinds of bacteria

Conversion from organic to inorganic

Reduction of NO3 into gaseous forms of Nitrogen

Used by fertiliser companies to manufacture most nitrogen carriers

Is a term which describes in a general way the relative ease in which a nutrient element is supplied by the soil to the plant

The concentration of the nutrients in the soil solution

The ability of the soil to replenish the ions in the soil solution as they are absorbed by the root

The rate of replenishment of the nutrients in the soil solution as they are absorbed by plant roots

Mechanisms by Which nutrients are made available to plant roots

When the nutrients dissolved in soil water is transported to the root surface

Movement of nutrients from higher to lower concentration

A process wherein there is an intimate contact with soil surfaces so that ions are exchange directly between the soil particles and the root surface

The nutrients are absorbed by the roots as they ramify through the soil

Phosphorus comes from apatite minerals

How many essential elements

Soil Fertility is edapological approach

Key role in ATP reactions or energy transformation

Major components of organic compound

Protein synthesis

Stomatal movements; osmotic potential in plant cells

These 2 micronutrients involves in nitrogen cycle