546-0308/02 – Pedology (PEDB)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 5 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Lenka Urbancová, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2015/2016 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course introduces the basics of soil science as part of ecosystems and as environmental components. Teaching follows the geological objects (Mineralogy and Petrography, Geology) and creates a foundation for the study of soil protection. After completing it, the student is fully aware of the complex nature of the soil environment and multidisciplinarity in its study. The student is able to characterize the basic parameters of soil from a physical, chemical, physico-chemical, biochemical and biological point of view. The student understands the connection between natural conditions and soil conditions in the Czech Republic, which can characterize and is fully aware of why it is important to protect the soil.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Terrain work
Summary
The content of the course will be designed so that the content of all chapters included in it is explained on the basis of specific examples related to the issue of environmental protection in industry and explaining this issue. The study focuses on soil as a part of ecosystems and a component of the environment. Attention is paid to the issue of agricultural, forest and urban soils. As a basis for understanding soil processes, soil properties are studied from various perspectives (physical, chemical, physico-chemical, biochemical and biological). Attention is also paid to the characteristics of soils in the Czech Republic. The soil classification is based on the international classification of soils.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Presence on lessons and active work
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
Pedogenic factors. Weathering processes and pedogenic processes. Mineral phases and
inorganic components in soils. Humus, humification processes. natural organic
substances in soils. Soil composition. Grain size composition of soils, and its determination
used for classification.
Color soils. Chemical composition of soils and chemical properties of soils. soil sorption
complex and sorption properties of soils. The biological component of soil, soil organisms. soil
water hydrolimity, measuring humidity. Soil air. Diagnostic soil horizons.
Principles of soil classification and comparison of different classification systems. current
Soil classification based on the classification of FAO - UNESCO. Soil types,
features and enhancements in nature. Relationships between soil types in the landscape. soil
katéna. Horizontal and vertical soil pásmovitost. Paleopedologie. soil and
ecological stability of landscape. Sampling and analysis of soils, soil water and soil
air. Soil maps.
exercise:
Laboratory - determination of basic properties of soils. Soil maps.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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