Match the following terms related to soil profiles: The base geological material for soils in a particular area The main component of the 1. parent material O horizon The layer below the O 2. horizon horizon in an idealized profile 3. A horizon when minerals suspended 4. organic matter or dissolved in solution are transported downward in 5. leaching soil The name for an individual layer of soil .

1. Match the following terms to their correct descriptions:
pop culture colony, colony form, colony elevation?
Describes the extent of upward growth from the surface of the solid growth medium.
Describes bacteria suspended in broth media
Refers to the morphology (or shape) of the cells
a single, visible mass of cells originating from a single mother cell, and are thus clones of the
mother cell.
all microbes are the same and/or descendant