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Horticulture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A substance used to control undesirable fungi
Fungicide
Heat tolerance
Transpiration
Complete fertilizer
2. A plant that completes its life cycle in two seasons
Biennial flower
Nutrient
Style
Cellular respiration
3. Supervised agriculture experience
Clay
Growth regulators
SAE
Shrub
4. The primary growing point of the stem
Herbaceous plant
Ornamental tree
Apical meristem
Fertilizer
5. Plants that shed their leaves in the fall
Transpiration
Peat moss
Deciduous
Photosynthesis
6. Green leaf-like structure on the exterior of a flower
Nematocide
Silt
Sepal
Floriculture
7. The pores or openings in the epidermis of a leaf that allow the exchange of oxygen - carbon dioxide - and water vapor
Petal
Stomata
Heat tolerance
Field grow
8. A soft - nonmetallic element
Landscaping
Shrub
Phosphorus
Filament
9. Without the union of male and female sex cells (also referred to as vegetative)
Stomata
Germination
Asexual
Perennial
10. The tube in the pistil that leads from the stigma to the ovary and through which pollen reaches the ova and egg
Pollination
Vine
Style
Heat tolerance
11. An outgrowth from a plant that constitutes part of the foliage and functions primarily in food manufacture by photosynthesis
Leaf
Accident
Molluscicide
Hardiness
12. The lower portion of a plant that bears neither leaves nor reproductive organs and that mostly develops underground and anchors the plant; the hairs absorb water and mineral nutrients
Style
Sexual
Root
Chloroplast
13. Fine-grained soil; smallest soil particle
Asexual
Shade tree
Shrub
Clay
14. A chemical element required for plant growth
Nutrient
Placement
Nematocide
Transpiration
15. Career Development Event
CDE
Stem
Ovary
Filament
16. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Heat tolerance
Cellular respiration
Biennial flower
Landscaping
17. The science and practice of growing - harvesting - storing - designing - marketing - and distributing foliage and/or flowering plants
Vermiculite
Cultivar
Floriculture
Sand
18. The branch of biology that deals with the forms of organisms
Clay
Seed
Morphology
Variet
19. The chance that an accident might occur during a research project
Heat tolerance
Shrub
Cellular respiration
Risk
20. A plant that keeps its leaves year round
Hormones
Root
Evergreen
Sepal
21. The specialized organelle in green plants in which photosynthesis takes place
Ground cover
Ornamental tree
Chloroplast
Hazard
22. Exposure to danger or harm
Hazard
Species
Ground cover
Peat moss
23. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the flower
Propagation
Pollination
Soilless media
Stamen
24. A non-woody plant that dies back to the ground each year
Accident
Herbaceous plant
Complete fertilizer
Ovary
25. A group of organisms with distinguishing characteristics from other plants in a species - but does not transfer those characteristics to the offspring through sexual reproduction
Potassium
Cultivar
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Floriculture
26. Material used to control nematodes
Nematocide
Fruit
Nomenclature
Placement
27. Largest soil particle; hard - granular rock; finer than gravel and coarser than dust
Horticulture
Molluscicide
Rodenticide
Sand
28. Fine particles of soil; smaller than sand and larger than clay
Interiorscaping
Silt
Vine
Root
29. Heat-treated lava rock that is light weight with low moisture and nutrient-holding capacity
Nomenclature
Flower
Perlite
Organic matter
30. The female reproductive parts of a flower
Organic matter
Woody Plant
Pistil
LD
31. The branch of biology that deals with identifying and naming organisms
Pesticide
Cellular respiration
Woody Plant
Taxonomy
32. Words on a pesticide label used to alert the user to the toxicity of a pesticide (danger - caution - warning - poison)
Landscaping
Cellular respiration
Balled and burlapped
Signal words
33. A bluish-white - highly reactive - metallic element
Pesticide
Stigma
Potassium
Silt
34. Any material used to provide nutrients that plants need
Filament
Fertilizer
Hazard
Perennial
35. An event that happens unexpectedly or unintentionally
Asexual
Fertilization
Accident
Entrepreneur
36. The water loss from plant tissues
Transpiration
Peat moss
Nitrogen
Sepal
37. 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
Nitrogen
Balled and burlapped
Insecticide
Container grown
38. Contains all three of the primary fertilizer nutrients (nitrogen - phosphorus - and potash)
Complete fertilizer
Stem
Container grown
Fertilizer
39. The ability of a plant to withstand hot temperatures
Herbaceous plant
Seed
Heat tolerance
Floriculture
40. 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
Signal words
pH
Photosynthesis
Style
41. An index of the acidity of a substance
Nematocide
Flower
pH
Molluscicide
42. Material used to control insects
Insecticide
Soilless media
Herbicide
Vine
43. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Floriculture
Rodenticide
Ovary
Soil texture
44. A variety of control methods - such as cultural - mechanical - biological and chemical - used together to control pests
Pistil
Genus
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Risk
45. The reproductive body of a seed plant consisting of one or more seeds and usually various protective and supporting structures
Safety
Fruit
Anther
SAE
46. The ability of a plant to withstand cold temperatures
Hardiness
Germination
Interiorscaping
Insecticide
47. Using live plants to landscae indoor areas - also known as plantscaping
Flower
Annual flower
Interiorscaping
Fruit
48. The fusion or joining of a sperm with an egg
Petal
Fertilization
Germination
Complete fertilizer
49. Chemical messenger substance that affects plant growth
Pistil
Hormones
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Species
50. Structure found at the top end of the pistil that contains a sticky surface on which pollen can be caught
Monocot
Flower
Stigma
CDE