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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. Odorless - colorless nutrient needed for plant life
Cellular respiration
Nomenclature
Genus
Nitrogen
2. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Landscaping
Morphology
Anther
Woody Plant
3. The ability of a plant to withstand hot temperatures
Accident
Vine
Insecticide
Heat tolerance
4. The practice of growing and suing plants for decorative purposes
pH
Filament
Signal words
Ornamental horticulture
5. A state of being free of danger and injury
Safety
Fungicide
Style
Chloroplast
6. Stalk - trunk - or branch of a plant; can be vertical or horizontal
Placement
Nematocide
Stem
LD
7. The chance that an accident might occur during a research project
Vermiculite
Pest
Ground cover
Risk
8. Plants that shed their leaves in the fall
Perlite
Deciduous
Hazard
Safety
9. Words on a pesticide label used to alert the user to the toxicity of a pesticide (danger - caution - warning - poison)
Signal words
Style
Bare root
Cellular respiration
10. A sheet containing information about the safe use of a chemical and the steps to take in case of an accident
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
SAE
Horticulture
11. Material used to control mites
Landscaping
Container grown
Variet
Miticide
12. The fusion or joining of a sperm with an egg
Balled and burlapped
Fertilization
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Dicot
13. The naming of organisms
Shade tree
Nomenclature
Tree
Molluscicide
14. Heat-treated lava rock that is light weight with low moisture and nutrient-holding capacity
Perlite
Variet
Ovary
Tree
15. Exposure to danger or harm
Sexual
Nomenclature
Hazard
Herbaceous plant
16. The tube in the pistil that leads from the stigma to the ovary and through which pollen reaches the ova and egg
Perlite
Style
Stamen
Apical meristem
17. Material used to kill or repel pests
Organic matter
Pesticide
Apical meristem
Herbicide
18. Plants grown in normal soil in the ground
Field grow
Leaf
Shrub
Ornamental horticulture
19. Chemical messenger substance that affects plant growth
Miticide
Bare root
Hormones
Placement
20. Reproduction involving the male and female sex cells (pollen and egg)
Phosphorus
Leaf
Safety
Sexual
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
Filament
Root
Perennial
Pest
22. Cultivated plants within a species that show a significant difference from other plants in the species
Variet
Evergreen
Flower
Vermiculite
23. The branch of biology that deals with the forms of organisms
Flower
Vegetative
Morphology
Soilless media
24. Type of reproduction using plant parts (but not the reproductive parts)
Dicot
Insecticide
Entrepreneur
Vegetative
25. The beginning of growth from a seed
Horticulture
Clay
Germination
Propagation
26. Structure that has an embryo and a source of stored food contained within a protective coat
Container grown
Perennial
Seed
Pollination
27. Chemical reaction in which stored food energy is made available for plants and animals
Placement
Chloroplast
Cellular respiration
Style
28. Supervised agriculture experience
SAE
Species
Flower
Photosynthesis
29. Material used to control nematodes
Perennial
Pest
Nematocide
Taxonomy
30. The female reproductive parts of a flower
Potassium
Pistil
Vegetative
Root
31. A sac-like structure at the top of the stamen that contains pollen
Anther
Interiorscaping
Morphology
Vegetative
32. The proportion of sand - silt - and clay in soil
Apical meristem
Floriculture
Soil texture
Deciduous
33. A non-woody plant that dies back to the ground each year
Genus
Herbaceous plant
Pistil
Annual flower
34. A bluish-white - highly reactive - metallic element
Soilless media
Potassium
Nitrogen
Photosynthesis
35. Working for someone else
Fruit
Chloroplast
Clay
Placement
36. Using indoor plants (also commonly referred to as "houseplants") to decorate or improve aesthetics inside a home or commerical building
Interiorscaping
pH
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Sepal
37. Heat-treated mica that is light weight with nutrient and moisture-holding capacity
Monocot
Filament
Vermiculite
Species
38. Fine particles of soil; smaller than sand and larger than clay
Signal words
Propagation
Silt
Photosynthesis
39. The science and practice of growing - harvestin - handling - storing - processing - and marketing tree fruits
Miticide
Shrub
Pomology
Clay
40. Material used to control insects
Pomology
Insecticide
Ground cover
Interiorscaping
41. A variety of control methods - such as cultural - mechanical - biological and chemical - used together to control pests
Landscaping
Soilless media
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Annual flower
42. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the flower
Ground cover
Organic matter
Pollination
Pomology
43. The branch of biology that deals with identifying and naming organisms
Taxonomy
Leaf
Dicot
Evergreen
44. The primary growing point of the stem
Apical meristem
Herbaceous plant
Photosynthesis
Nutrient
45. Growing media that lack any mineral soil
Sand
Heat tolerance
Soilless media
Monocot
46. Largest soil particle; hard - granular rock; finer than gravel and coarser than dust
Genus
Fertilizer
Sand
Fungicide
47. Large trees with spreading canopies
Shade tree
Balled and burlapped
Interiorscaping
Chloroplast
48. Plants that are grown in manmade containers - such as clay or plastic pots or hanging baskets
Petal
Container grown
Hazard
Miticide
49. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Chloroplast
Genus
Ovary
Pest
50. Using live plants to landscae indoor areas - also known as plantscaping
LD
Interiorscaping
Floriculture
Style