There are multiple factors that don't play a part in water movement. We need a list of possible options.
Of interest, climate is one of the five soil forming factors and has a significant influence on the properties of soil. Soils in warmer or wetter climate are more developed than soils in cooler or drier climate. Warm conditions promote the chemical and biological reactions that develop parent material into soil.
Plants manufacture glucose during photosynthesis. Which would be the process that plans use to make food using sunlight.
