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Agriculture · Q372

Agronomy

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 372

Q372

The last added soil order is

A.
Entisol
Answer
B.
Mollisol
C.
Gellisol
D.
Spodosol

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Based on chemical, physical and biological features, the soil has been categorized into 12 categories, which are called soil orders. These are Vertisols, spodosols, Mollisols, histosols, Entisols, Andisols, Ultisols, Oxisols, Inceptisols, Gelisols, Ardisols, Alfisols. Entisols are the pedologically youngest of the soils added to the order recently. It is formed from freshly deposited materials.