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6 marksSoil Formation and Soil Conservation

CAPE Geography Unit 2 · 2019 · Paper 2 · Question 2(d)

Suggest TWO reasons why the characteristics of soil at the top of a slope are different from the characteristics of soil at the base of a slope.

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