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Horticulture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A variety of control methods - such as cultural - mechanical - biological and chemical - used together to control pests
Peat moss
Nutrient
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Pesticide
2. The pores or openings in the epidermis of a leaf that allow the exchange of oxygen - carbon dioxide - and water vapor
Vine
Nitrogen
Stomata
Transpiration
3. A plant that completes its life cycle in one year
Morphology
Taxonomy
Annual flower
Phosphorus
4. The manufacture of food by green plants in which carbon dioxide and water are combined in the presence of light and chlorophyll to form sugar and oxygen
Photosynthesis
Ornamental horticulture
LD
Root
5. A harvesting technique where a plant is dug without taking soil from the field
Stem
Root
Vine
Bare root
6. A substance used to control rodents
SAE
Soilless media
Rodenticide
Style
7. A plant that lives for more than two seasons
Phosphorus
Annual flower
Perennial
Peat moss
8. Career Development Event
Genus
CDE
Soilless media
pH
9. Plants grown in normal soil in the ground
Field grow
Risk
Placement
Fertilization
10. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Species
Ground cover
Transpiration
Olericulture
11. The reproduction of plants by seed - cuttings - budding - or grafting to increase in number - to reproduce
Propagation
Variet
Floriculture
Ovary
12. Literally means "garden cultivation" - includes the cultivation - processing - and sale of fruits - nuts - vegetables - ornamental plants - and flowers
Fertilizer
Pesticide
Horticulture
Vegetative
13. Odorless - colorless nutrient needed for plant life
Nitrogen
Landscaping
Phosphorus
Safety
14. Working for someone else
Miticide
Shade tree
Placement
Pistil
15. A bluish-white - highly reactive - metallic element
Phosphorus
Potassium
Organic matter
Bare root
16. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the flower
Vermiculite
Tree
Deciduous
Pollination
17. Material used to kill or repel pests
Sepal
Pesticide
Potassium
Ground cover
18. A plant that keeps its leaves year round
Fungicide
Evergreen
Clay
Signal words
19. Woody or herbaceous plant that require some type of support
Soilless media
Pest
Vine
Pollination
20. The science and practice of growing - harvesting - storing - designing - marketing - and distributing foliage and/or flowering plants
Floriculture
Olericulture
Evergreen
Soilless media
21. The branch of biology that deals with the forms of organisms
Morphology
Leaf
Field grow
Perennial
22. Without the union of male and female sex cells (also referred to as vegetative)
Sepal
Asexual
Accident
Complete fertilizer
23. The tube in the pistil that leads from the stigma to the ovary and through which pollen reaches the ova and egg
Petal
Style
Transpiration
Stem
24. Any material used to provide nutrients that plants need
Tree
Fertilizer
Transpiration
Stomata
25. Plants with one cotyledon - flower parts usually in multiples of three - leaf venation usually parallel - no secondary growth - vascular bundles scattered in the stem
Sexual
Phosphorus
Root
Monocot
26. The naming of organisms
Sexual
Transpiration
Nomenclature
Flower
27. The branch of biology that deals with identifying and naming organisms
Balled and burlapped
Perennial
Taxonomy
LD
28. An outgrowth from a plant that constitutes part of the foliage and functions primarily in food manufacture by photosynthesis
Leaf
Balled and burlapped
Bare root
Dicot
29. The science and practice of growing - harvestin - handling - storing - processing - and marketing tree fruits
Pomology
Phosphorus
Placement
Genus
30. Chemical messenger substance that affects plant growth
Chloroplast
Root
Hormones
Potassium
31. One who works for oneself
Risk
CDE
Safety
Entrepreneur
32. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Growth regulators
Interiorscaping
Hormones
Ovary
33. The chance that an accident might occur during a research project
Safety
Risk
Landscaping
Vegetative
34. An index of the acidity of a substance
Nomenclature
pH
Shade tree
Ornamental tree
35. A non-woody plant that dies back to the ground each year
Floriculture
Nutrient
Stamen
Herbaceous plant
36. The reproductive body of a seed plant consisting of one or more seeds and usually various protective and supporting structures
CDE
Pest
Nutrient
Fruit
37. Fine particles of soil; smaller than sand and larger than clay
Silt
Vine
Fertilization
Apical meristem
38. Material used to control undesirable plants
Hormones
Herbicide
Annual flower
Species
39. A chemical used to kill snails and slugs
Safety
Landscaping
Molluscicide
Seed
40. Large trees with spreading canopies
Shade tree
Flower
Pomology
Clay
41. Hormones and synthetic chemicals that inhibit or modify plant growth and development
Filament
Growth regulators
Risk
Organic matter
42. Supervised agriculture experience
Heat tolerance
Apical meristem
Vegetative
SAE
43. A soft - nonmetallic element
Accident
Phosphorus
Root
Peat moss
44. Material used to control insects
Pomology
Insecticide
Woody Plant
Shrub
45. Plants that shed their leaves in the fall
Sand
Deciduous
Stigma
Signal words
46. A harvesting technique where a plant is dug keeping a ball of soil around the root system and covering it with burlap to hold the soil and roots together
Miticide
Placement
Nutrient
Balled and burlapped
47. The reproductive organs of a plant
Monocot
Flower
Cellular respiration
Sand
48. Cultivated plants within a species that show a significant difference from other plants in the species
Interiorscaping
Herbicide
Variet
Soilless media
49. The female reproductive parts of a flower
Nitrogen
Pistil
Stomata
Transpiration
50. The practice of growing and suing plants for decorative purposes
Vegetative
Stigma
Placement
Ornamental horticulture