AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. While the House has voted more than 50 times in the past four years to repeal the law, or parts of it, this was the first vote for a total repeal since 2013. NPR's Juana Summers joins us from the Capitol with the latest. Hey there, Juana.
1. Soil Type: Sandy. Sandy soil has the largest particles among the different soil types. Itâs dry and gritty to the touch, and because the particles have huge spaces between them, it canât hold on to water. Water drains rapidly, straight through to places where the roots, particularly those of seedlings, cannot reach.
The texture of soil is determined by the ratio of sand, clay, and silt in soil. Soil with higher sand is sandy loam and feels more grainy because sand grains are larger than than the other rocks grains. Silty loam is produced by a higher percentage of silt in the soil. It is a finer grained soil because silt tends to be smaller than sand. On the soil triangle, these three components are able to make up a wide variety of soil textures. Soil is named for its texture, thus the texture of a soil is very important. Too much or too little of any of these components can make the soil not usable for agriculture.