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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. Literally means "garden cultivation" - includes the cultivation - processing - and sale of fruits - nuts - vegetables - ornamental plants - and flowers
Pesticide
Seed
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Horticulture
2. The fusion or joining of a sperm with an egg
Fertilization
Style
Stomata
Transpiration
3. Woody or herbaceous plant that forms a mat less than 1 foot high covering the ground
Sexual
Pomology
Ground cover
Tree
4. Large trees with spreading canopies
Pomology
Anther
Shade tree
Hazard
5. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Perennial
Nutrient
Stomata
Ovary
6. Woody or herbaceous plant that require some type of support
Vine
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Ornamental tree
Woody Plant
7. A single-stem - woody - perennial plant reaching the height of 12 feet or more
Tree
Fruit
Species
Landscaping
8. The naming of organisms
Silt
Hazard
Transpiration
Nomenclature
9. The ability of a plant to withstand hot temperatures
Potassium
Field grow
LD
Heat tolerance
10. Smaller trees of high ornamental value
Species
Taxonomy
Ornamental tree
Hardiness
11. An outgrowth from a plant that constitutes part of the foliage and functions primarily in food manufacture by photosynthesis
Leaf
Balled and burlapped
Ornamental horticulture
Germination
12. Material used to control mites
Miticide
Morphology
Cultivar
Stomata
13. The female reproductive parts of a flower
Pistil
Morphology
CDE
pH
14. A chemical element required for plant growth
Vegetative
Root
Pollination
Nutrient
15. A substance used to control undesirable fungi
Ornamental horticulture
Genus
Field grow
Fungicide
16. A sheet containing information about the safe use of a chemical and the steps to take in case of an accident
Field grow
Evergreen
Ornamental tree
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
17. Plants that shed their leaves in the fall
Floriculture
Deciduous
Ornamental horticulture
Hazard
18. The stalk-like part of the stamen that holds the anther
Filament
Deciduous
Asexual
Nutrient
19. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Fungicide
Balled and burlapped
Organic matter
Landscaping
20. Plants that are grown in manmade containers - such as clay or plastic pots or hanging baskets
Stamen
Perlite
Container grown
Floriculture
21. A variety of control methods - such as cultural - mechanical - biological and chemical - used together to control pests
Landscaping
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Clay
Sexual
22. The water loss from plant tissues
Vine
Hardiness
Transpiration
Evergreen
23. Heat-treated lava rock that is light weight with low moisture and nutrient-holding capacity
Fertilizer
Perlite
Vermiculite
Landscaping
24. Material used to control nematodes
Germination
Variet
Nematocide
Signal words
25. Working for someone else
Evergreen
Placement
Interiorscaping
Phosphorus
26. The practice of growing and suing plants for decorative purposes
Ornamental horticulture
Horticulture
Flower
Tree
27. A plant that completes its life cycle in two seasons
Molluscicide
Woody Plant
Accident
Biennial flower
28. A plant that lives for more than two seasons
Phosphorus
LD
Perennial
Field grow
29. The male reproductive parts of a flower
Cellular respiration
CDE
Stamen
Nitrogen
30. The beginning of growth from a seed
pH
Organic matter
Germination
Cultivar
31. Exposure to danger or harm
Stamen
Hazard
Seed
Clay
32. A plant that produces wood and has buds above the ground that survive winter
Shade tree
Nutrient
Herbicide
Woody Plant
33. A substance used to control rodents
Dicot
Variet
Rodenticide
Pistil
34. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Miticide
Soil texture
Shade tree
Olericulture
35. Lethal dose
Stomata
Vermiculite
LD
Root
36. The branch of biology that deals with identifying and naming organisms
pH
Sexual
Chloroplast
Taxonomy
37. The proportion of sand - silt - and clay in soil
Soil texture
Filament
Potassium
Rodenticide
38. The science and practice of growing - harvesting - storing - designing - marketing - and distributing foliage and/or flowering plants
Phosphorus
Photosynthesis
Bare root
Floriculture
39. Chemical reaction in which stored food energy is made available for plants and animals
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Rodenticide
Cellular respiration
Herbaceous plant
40. Odorless - colorless nutrient needed for plant life
Nitrogen
Apical meristem
Filament
Hazard
41. A soft - nonmetallic element
Phosphorus
Clay
Woody Plant
Entrepreneur
42. An index of the acidity of a substance
Species
pH
Flower
Pest
43. An event that happens unexpectedly or unintentionally
Pesticide
Vine
Biennial flower
Accident
44. A plant that completes its life cycle in one year
Fungicide
Annual flower
Tree
Species
45. The ability of a plant to withstand cold temperatures
Hardiness
Stigma
Peat moss
Leaf
46. Multi-stem - woody plants that do not exceed 20 feet in height
Balled and burlapped
Transpiration
Fruit
Shrub
47. The tube in the pistil that leads from the stigma to the ovary and through which pollen reaches the ova and egg
Variet
Root
Style
Fertilization
48. Plants with two cotyledons - flower parts usually in multiples of four or five - true secondary growth - vascular bundles arranged in a ring in the stem
Growth regulators
Hormones
Phosphorus
Dicot
49. Material used to control undesirable plants
Herbicide
Hardiness
Sepal
Pistil
50. Decayed remains of plants and animals
Container grown
Deciduous
Organic matter
Dicot