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in Class 10 by kratos

Give a single word for each of the following:

i. ‘The loose rock material, together with humus, forming the uppermost layer of the earth’* crust and serving as a source of food and moisture for plants.

ii. ‘The process of percolation by which valuable mineral nutrients are washed down from the top layer of the soil only to *** them in the lower layers, making thereby the topsoil infertile’’.

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(i) Soil

(ii) Leaching

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