COURSES OUTLINE FOR AGRO 221.

COURSE TITLE :SOIL CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

COURSE TOPICS

CREDIT HOURS : 3

1. Definition of soil physics

2. Soil components and phases of soil

3. Application of soil physics

4. Meaning of compaction

5. Factors contributing or leading to soil compaction

6. Effects of soil compaction on crop growth

7. Evidence of soil compaction in farm land

8. Ways of correcting or preventing soil compaction

9. Definition of dense soil , total porosity,void ratio, and bulk density

10. Determination of dense soil and calculations

11. Practices leading to poor or high bulk density

12. Ways of improving or reducing high bulk density

13. Measurements of water in the soil

# Gravimetric

# Volumetric

14. Movement of water in the soil

# Transpiration

# Capillary action

# Root Pressure

15. Definition of terminologies

 # Free energy

# Cohesion

# Surface tension

# Capillarity

16. Importance of water in the soil

17. Soil chemistry, scope and importance

18. Structure of Clay's:

# Tetrahedron structure

# Octrahedron structure

19. Types of clays:

# Silicate Clay's

# Amorphous Clay's

20. Isomorphous substitution

21. Anion exchange capacity

22. Cation exchange capacity

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ABU SORIE KANU