Vocab

  1. fertile: fruitful, prolific(pro-life), fecund fer=carry eg. ferry, infer, prefer
  2. composted: decayed, decomposed, rotted
  3. dynamic: active, energetic, lively dyn(動力): dynamite(mite 動), dino
  4. inputs: materials, substances, elements
  5. weathering: erosion, ablation(生僻), dissolution ero/eras/erod/erad: delete
  6. minerals
  7. constituent: component, element, ingredient pon/pos: eg. put, postpone
  8. depleted: exhausted plet/plen: fill eg. plenty, replenish(恢復)
  9. mineralization: decomposition, breakdown, rotting
  10. resistant: impervious(無法穿透, per: 全), immune, unsusceptible sist: stand eg. persist(per: 全部; 堅持) insist(in: 進入; 固執的堅持的堅持) perfect(per: 全) assist
  11. humus(生僻): compost(生僻), topsoil, manure
  12. domestication: taming, acclimatization, breeding dome: home eg. kingdom, fandom breed: proliferate acclimatization: 習慣於…(中間有個climate=氣候,長期,可以這樣想)
  13. bred: raised, propagated(擴散,可以用propaganda去想), cultivated
  14. accustomed: used, familiar, habituated habituated: 變成習慣了(habit)
  15. hierarchies: rankings, pecking order, echelons(生僻)
  16. supplanting: replacing, displacing, overruling plant: 種;sup:下, 從下面種上去(所以把上面的東西推翻掉)
  17. depictions: portrayals, representations, illustrations
  18. subspecies: variety, breed, race
  19. obligate: required, necessary, mandatory obligation(responsibility)
  20. carnivores: meat-eaters, predators, hunters
  21. granaries(place to store grains): storehouses, warehouses, silos
  22. proximity: nearness, adjacency, propinquity(生僻) prox: near eg. proxy(代理), approximately
  23. ancestors: forefathers, progenitors, predecessors ces: 走 eg. success, process, succeed(inherit) an: 前 predecessors: pre:先, dec: deceased(dead死了)
  24. niche(小眾): role, position, function

Lecture 1

  1. Several processes involved in the creation of soil.
  2. They combine with organic matter in different ways; They are formed by different types of weathering
  3. A?
  4. A 或 D (A?)
  5. It separates the components of soil into layers(不確定) It can cause the loss of some of the soil material components.

Lecture 2

事項

  1. 期末考wk17
  2. wk18不用來

期末

70% in class lecture 30% new lecture

下週傳筆記(含單字筆記以及過往的lecture)