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Some are pale, some dark, and some gray. Some have a fine, almost powdery texture, some feel gritty, and some are so sticky you can shape them, like modeling clay. The characteristics of a soil affect its fertility—its capacity for growing farm crops. This makes the scientific study of soils, called pedology, important. Since the 19th century, pedologists have made many attempts to simplify the study of soils by dividing them into clearly defined types. There are now several national schemes of soil classification and an international scheme that is used by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
It pushes the water along the way it blows leaves and paper on land, but the wind blows more constantly at sea than it does over land, so its pressure is steadier. The water that it pushes along forms ocean currents, like rivers flowing through the sea. On either side of the equator, the North and South Equatorial Currents flow from east to west. As they approach land they turn away from the equator and enter middle latitudes, where westerly winds carry them eastward. They continue to turn, however, until eventually they are flowing 37 38 TEMPERATE FORESTS General circulation of the atmosphere The tropics of Cancer in the north and Capricorn in the south, mark the boundaries of the belt around the Earth where the Sun is directly overhead on at least one day in the year.
Air fills the soil pores, but it can be displaced by water flowing through the soil. If water fills most of the pores, the soil is waterlogged. Walking across it will churn the soil into mud. The total amount of pore space determines the amount of water a given volume of soil can hold. This is known as the porosity of the soil. Surprisingly perhaps, although soil particles vary greatly in size, their size does not affect the porosity. The diagram illustrates this. It shows three compartments of equal volume, containing one, eight, and many spherical particles.