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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. Lethal dose
Pollination
Leaf
Peat moss
LD
2. Material used to control undesirable plants
Apical meristem
Insecticide
Herbicide
Silt
3. Plants grown in normal soil in the ground
Pest
Ornamental horticulture
Field grow
Container grown
4. Fine-grained soil; smallest soil particle
Vegetative
Clay
Nematocide
Entrepreneur
5. One who works for oneself
Hazard
Entrepreneur
Phosphorus
Sand
6. A harvesting technique where a plant is dug without taking soil from the field
Perlite
Soil texture
Bare root
Style
7. Material used to kill or repel pests
Rodenticide
pH
Pesticide
Morphology
8. Large trees with spreading canopies
Shade tree
Potassium
Proficiency
Ovary
9. An event that happens unexpectedly or unintentionally
Ornamental tree
Shade tree
Accident
Nomenclature
10. Largest soil particle; hard - granular rock; finer than gravel and coarser than dust
Variet
Sand
Complete fertilizer
Nutrient
11. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the flower
Pollination
CDE
Transpiration
Entrepreneur
12. Heat-treated lava rock that is light weight with low moisture and nutrient-holding capacity
Cellular respiration
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Sepal
Perlite
13. The practice of growing and suing plants for decorative purposes
Stomata
Sand
LD
Ornamental horticulture
14. The ability of a plant to withstand hot temperatures
Heat tolerance
Photosynthesis
Fruit
Ornamental horticulture
15. A sheet containing information about the safe use of a chemical and the steps to take in case of an accident
Interiorscaping
Biennial flower
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Sepal
16. Plants with one cotyledon - flower parts usually in multiples of three - leaf venation usually parallel - no secondary growth - vascular bundles scattered in the stem
Fertilizer
Soil texture
Genus
Monocot
17. Chemical messenger substance that affects plant growth
Interiorscaping
Photosynthesis
Hormones
Signal words
18. A soft - nonmetallic element
Potassium
Dicot
Ground cover
Phosphorus
19. Type of reproduction using plant parts (but not the reproductive parts)
Dicot
Filament
Vegetative
Rodenticide
20. 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
Peat moss
Vermiculite
Risk
Cultivar
21. Odorless - colorless nutrient needed for plant life
Nutrient
Fertilization
Field grow
Nitrogen
22. The chance that an accident might occur during a research project
Nitrogen
Taxonomy
Silt
Risk
23. Hormones and synthetic chemicals that inhibit or modify plant growth and development
Growth regulators
Floriculture
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Stomata
24. Smaller trees of high ornamental value
Heat tolerance
Rodenticide
Ornamental tree
Perlite
25. The naming of organisms
Clay
Annual flower
Nomenclature
Soil texture
26. Using live plants to landscae indoor areas - also known as plantscaping
Interiorscaping
Vermiculite
Leaf
Perennial
27. The primary growing point of the stem
Placement
Apical meristem
Interiorscaping
Rodenticide
28. Leaf-like structures located inside the sepals that are often colorful
Shade tree
Photosynthesis
Petal
Peat moss
29. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Landscaping
Insecticide
Clay
Propagation
30. Decayed remains of plants and animals
Taxonomy
Shrub
Peat moss
Organic matter
31. Material used to control nematodes
Ovary
Nematocide
Interiorscaping
Landscaping
32. Career Development Event
Olericulture
CDE
Woody Plant
Growth regulators
33. A plant that produces wood and has buds above the ground that survive winter
Woody Plant
Risk
Complete fertilizer
Taxonomy
34. Growing media that lack any mineral soil
Chloroplast
Style
Taxonomy
Soilless media
35. 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
Hormones
Balled and burlapped
Hardiness
36. A substance used to control rodents
Nematocide
Rodenticide
Nutrient
Ovary
37. The male reproductive parts of a flower
Stamen
Biennial flower
Apical meristem
Sand
38. Any material used to provide nutrients that plants need
Fertilizer
Nutrient
Clay
Fertilization
39. The branch of biology that deals with identifying and naming organisms
Seed
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Chloroplast
Taxonomy
40. Reproduction involving the male and female sex cells (pollen and egg)
Horticulture
Vine
Miticide
Sexual
41. The science and practice of growing - harvesting - storing - designing - marketing - and distributing foliage and/or flowering plants
Perlite
pH
Floriculture
Peat moss
42. Without the union of male and female sex cells (also referred to as vegetative)
Field grow
Sepal
Asexual
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
43. Multi-stem - woody plants that do not exceed 20 feet in height
Morphology
Deciduous
Fertilizer
Shrub
44. The science and practice of growing - harvestin - handling - storing - processing - and marketing tree fruits
Container grown
Asexual
Pomology
Silt
45. The reproduction of plants by seed - cuttings - budding - or grafting to increase in number - to reproduce
Germination
Propagation
Container grown
Olericulture
46. A group of organisms with characteristics that distinguish them from other groups in a genus
Nitrogen
Species
Evergreen
Shrub
47. Plants that shed their leaves in the fall
Pollination
Placement
Deciduous
Vine
48. Cultivated plants within a species that show a significant difference from other plants in the species
Perennial
Growth regulators
Annual flower
Variet
49. Exposure to danger or harm
Leaf
Apical meristem
Deciduous
Hazard
50. Words on a pesticide label used to alert the user to the toxicity of a pesticide (danger - caution - warning - poison)
Sepal
Signal words
SAE
Shrub