Question

Discuss the factors on which nature of soil depends. [2 MARKS]

Answer 1

Naming of each factor: 0.5 Mark

Soil formation depends on a cumulative set of factors that together come to play like

• What is the parent material from which the soils has disintegrated and composed.
• What was the climatic condition that induced the agents of weathering for the soil to form
• What was the relief features of the land , that is the topography that exists there
• What were the flora fauna and . microbial organisms at playthat contributed to the rate of humus formation.