What Best Describes the Basic Way in Which Soils Form

question 12

Multiple Choice

What best describes the basic way in which soils form?

• A) physical and chemical weathering of rock
• B) erosion and deposition of sediment
• C) breakdown of minerals by ultraviolet radiation
• D) repeated flooding over long periods of time
• E) reactions between water and atmospheric oxygen

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