546-0524/01 – Pedology and Hydropedology (PePH)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Lenka Urbancová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Lenka Urbancová, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2011/2012 | Year of cancellation | 2017/2018 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the Subject is to direct students to understand the soil development process, the determination of soil types. Students understand the chemical and physical processes in soils, they will be able to determine basic soil types edaphon, understand and analyze human influences on the soil ecosystem.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Terrain work
Summary
Soil science - its status and development tasks. Soil and its characteristics. Weathering processes. Pedogenic processes. Mineral phases in soils. Natural organic matter in soils. Physical properties of soils. Chemical properties of soils. Sorption properties of soils. Biological properties of soils. Edaphon. Humus, humification processes. Diagnostic soil horizons. Soil Classification - basic principles used systems. Horizontal and vertical zonality soils. Soil Sampling and field survey soil. Analyses of soils. Map data in soil science.
Basics hydropedology. Soil water. Soil hydrolimity. Water regime in the unsaturated zone. Methods of measuring soil moisture. Methods for sampling soil water. Soil erosion. Erosion control measures.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
DUCHAUFOUR, P. (1997): Pedogenése et classification. Mason, Paris, New York, 488 pp.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
to elaborate Semestral work
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Soil science - its status and development tasks. Soil and its characteristics. Weathering processes. Pedogenic processes. Mineral phases in soils. Natural organic matter in soils. Physical properties of soils. Chemical properties of soils. Sorption properties of soils. Biological properties of soils. Edaphon. Humus, humification processes. Diagnostic soil horizons. Soil Classification - basic principles used systems. Horizontal and vertical zonality soils. Soil Sampling and field survey soil. Analyses of soils. Map data in soil science.
Basics hydropedology. Soil water. Soil hydrolimity. Water regime in the unsaturated zone. Methods of measuring soil moisture. Methods for sampling soil water. Soil erosion. Erosion control measures.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction