Discussion
In wind erosion, the maximum portion of soil is transported by the process of __________.
Answer: B
The maximum portion is transported by saltation.
In wind erosion, particles of medium size, roughly 0.1 to 0.5 mm, are lifted briefly into the air and fall back in short bouncing hops, striking and dislodging other particles. This saltation carries the largest share of the eroded soil, usually put at about 50 to 75% of the total.
Suspension moves the finest particles high and far, but they form a smaller fraction of the moving soil. Surface creep rolls and pushes the coarser particles along the ground, set moving by the impact of saltating grains. Bed load is a term for sediment moved along a stream bed by water, not by wind.
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