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Horticulture
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Plants grown in normal soil in the ground
Field grow
Seed
Ornamental tree
Potassium
2. Growing media that lack any mineral soil
Placement
Taxonomy
Phosphorus
Soilless media
3. Large trees with spreading canopies
Style
Perlite
Shade tree
SAE
4. Anything unwanted
Pest
Landscaping
Rodenticide
Nutrient
5. A plant that lives for more than two seasons
Perennial
Interiorscaping
Flower
Vermiculite
6. The science and practice of growing - harvesting - storing - designing - marketing - and distributing foliage and/or flowering plants
Floriculture
Hardiness
Placement
Propagation
7. 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
Bare root
Vine
Photosynthesis
Asexual
8. A sheet containing information about the safe use of a chemical and the steps to take in case of an accident
Container grown
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Photosynthesis
Accident
9. Words on a pesticide label used to alert the user to the toxicity of a pesticide (danger - caution - warning - poison)
Deciduous
Signal words
Potassium
Soil texture
10. Career Development Event
Sepal
Interiorscaping
Species
CDE
11. A plant that keeps its leaves year round
Evergreen
Placement
Silt
Hormones
12. Plants with one cotyledon - flower parts usually in multiples of three - leaf venation usually parallel - no secondary growth - vascular bundles scattered in the stem
Seed
Stomata
Monocot
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
13. The proportion of sand - silt - and clay in soil
Sepal
Horticulture
Soil texture
Shade tree
14. The specialized organelle in green plants in which photosynthesis takes place
Bare root
Stamen
Species
Chloroplast
15. An index of the acidity of a substance
Soilless media
Pest
Fungicide
pH
16. A group of organisms with characteristics that distinguish them from other groups in a genus
Species
Interiorscaping
Fertilizer
Style
17. Leaf-like structures located inside the sepals that are often colorful
Petal
Transpiration
Fruit
Stem
18. Chemical messenger substance that affects plant growth
Photosynthesis
pH
Entrepreneur
Hormones
19. The practice of growing and suing plants for decorative purposes
Ornamental horticulture
Soil texture
Placement
Nutrient
20. Decayed remains of plants and animals
Organic matter
Propagation
Safety
Nomenclature
21. 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
Potassium
Vermiculite
Perennial
Root
22. A non-woody plant that dies back to the ground each year
Herbaceous plant
Risk
Nitrogen
Pomology
23. Woody or herbaceous plant that forms a mat less than 1 foot high covering the ground
Species
Stamen
Genus
Ground cover
24. Exposure to danger or harm
Dicot
Sand
Hazard
Rodenticide
25. Type of reproduction using plant parts (but not the reproductive parts)
Floriculture
Rodenticide
Stigma
Vegetative
26. A single-stem - woody - perennial plant reaching the height of 12 feet or more
Tree
Chloroplast
Transpiration
Propagation
27. A sac-like structure at the top of the stamen that contains pollen
Variet
Ground cover
Fertilizer
Anther
28. The pores or openings in the epidermis of a leaf that allow the exchange of oxygen - carbon dioxide - and water vapor
Transpiration
Flower
Perennial
Stomata
29. 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
Annual flower
Fruit
Balled and burlapped
Herbaceous plant
30. A state of being free of danger and injury
Safety
Pomology
Clay
Pollination
31. Contains all three of the primary fertilizer nutrients (nitrogen - phosphorus - and potash)
Complete fertilizer
Vine
Heat tolerance
Transpiration
32. An award for an individual's SAE
Vermiculite
Ornamental tree
Proficiency
LD
33. The tube in the pistil that leads from the stigma to the ovary and through which pollen reaches the ova and egg
Style
Field grow
Propagation
pH
34. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the flower
Olericulture
Risk
Variet
Pollination
35. A variety of control methods - such as cultural - mechanical - biological and chemical - used together to control pests
Vegetative
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Organic matter
Safety
36. Structure found at the top end of the pistil that contains a sticky surface on which pollen can be caught
Genus
LD
Stigma
Leaf
37. The stalk-like part of the stamen that holds the anther
Nitrogen
Horticulture
Filament
Landscaping
38. Moss plants that grow on heath bogs
Phosphorus
Taxonomy
Insecticide
Peat moss
39. One who works for oneself
Heat tolerance
LD
Seed
Entrepreneur
40. A plant that completes its life cycle in two seasons
Apical meristem
Biennial flower
Peat moss
Anther
41. Structure that has an embryo and a source of stored food contained within a protective coat
Seed
Ornamental tree
Nutrient
Tree
42. Largest soil particle; hard - granular rock; finer than gravel and coarser than dust
Miticide
Sand
Apical meristem
Perlite
43. The chance that an accident might occur during a research project
Risk
Perennial
Insecticide
Germination
44. The reproduction of plants by seed - cuttings - budding - or grafting to increase in number - to reproduce
Propagation
Entrepreneur
Nitrogen
Transpiration
45. A chemical element required for plant growth
Evergreen
Sepal
Safety
Nutrient
46. Fine particles of soil; smaller than sand and larger than clay
Entrepreneur
Silt
Anther
pH
47. A chemical used to kill snails and slugs
Fertilizer
Molluscicide
Container grown
Transpiration
48. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Heat tolerance
Ovary
Leaf
Morphology
49. A plant that produces wood and has buds above the ground that survive winter
Woody Plant
SAE
Nomenclature
Ornamental horticulture
50. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Sexual
Vermiculite
Landscaping
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)