Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

SOS 303 — Introductory Pedology and Soil Physics

SOS department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

decipher the differences and distinguish between soil and land, between land and landscape
explain the concept of the soil system as a natural body, as a disperse system and as an open system; 88 New Agricultural Science
discuss the origin of the soils on which all plants/crops are grown, and as the bedrock of agriculture and by direct implication food security

Course contents

Introductory: Soil, land and landscape. Processes in the soil environment. Jenny’s factors of soil formation: The parent material. Climate, organisms, relief, and time. Soils as the bedrock of agriculture. Soils as non-renewable natural resource. Soils as a disperse system.

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SOS 303 — Introductory Pedology and Soil Physics

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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