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A student was asked the following question: What are the environmental factors that determine the
  development of soils, and which are the most important regarding the rate of development? As an
  answer, the student wrote the following, The environmental factors that determine the development of
  soils are climate, parent material, relief of the land, and time. Climate and parent material are the most
  important factors for the rate of soil development. How would you judge this student's answer?
  a. EXCELLENT (The response answers both parts of the question, and all statements are
  complete and correct.)
  b. VERY GOOD (The response answers both parts of the question, all statements are correct,
  but one part is not answered completely.)
  c. GOOD (The response only answers one part of the question, all statements are correct, but
  the other part of the question is not answered.)
  d. MEDIOCRE (One part of the question is answered completely and correctly, but the other
  part is answered incorrectly.)
  e. UNACCEPTABLE (The response does not correctly answer either part of the question.)



Question 2

What would you call a soil with 30 clay, 40 silt, and 30 sand?
  a. loam
  b. clay loam
  c. silt loam
  d. sandy loam
  e. loamy sand




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choc0chan

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B




charchew

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Reply 2 on: Jul 15, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


okolip

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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