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Horticulture
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1. Material used to kill or repel pests
Ornamental horticulture
Hormones
Nomenclature
Pesticide
2. Largest soil particle; hard - granular rock; finer than gravel and coarser than dust
Sand
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Vegetative
Nitrogen
3. Fine particles of soil; smaller than sand and larger than clay
Silt
Interiorscaping
Propagation
Leaf
4. Smaller trees of high ornamental value
Ornamental tree
Stigma
Miticide
Molluscicide
5. A plant that completes its life cycle in one year
Flower
Annual flower
Container grown
Stomata
6. The water loss from plant tissues
Asexual
Transpiration
Stomata
Stem
7. A single-stem - woody - perennial plant reaching the height of 12 feet or more
Floriculture
Tree
Dicot
Vegetative
8. Cultivated plants within a species that show a significant difference from other plants in the species
Rodenticide
Ground cover
Variet
Phosphorus
9. The ability of a plant to withstand cold temperatures
Vegetative
Species
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Hardiness
10. Woody or herbaceous plant that require some type of support
Anther
Vine
LD
Risk
11. The male reproductive parts of a flower
Miticide
Fertilizer
Stamen
Herbaceous plant
12. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Ovary
Soilless media
Leaf
Floriculture
13. Without the union of male and female sex cells (also referred to as vegetative)
Growth regulators
Transpiration
Asexual
Fruit
14. Plants grown in normal soil in the ground
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Photosynthesis
CDE
Field grow
15. Multi-stem - woody plants that do not exceed 20 feet in height
Bare root
Shrub
Clay
Stomata
16. 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
Soil texture
Photosynthesis
Growth regulators
Germination
17. A sac-like structure at the top of the stamen that contains pollen
Cultivar
Safety
Anther
Pomology
18. Working for someone else
Molluscicide
Biennial flower
Balled and burlapped
Placement
19. The chance that an accident might occur during a research project
Landscaping
Risk
Container grown
pH
20. Literally means "garden cultivation" - includes the cultivation - processing - and sale of fruits - nuts - vegetables - ornamental plants - and flowers
Horticulture
Entrepreneur
Container grown
Morphology
21. The reproductive organs of a plant
Flower
Stem
Field grow
Morphology
22. One who works for oneself
Entrepreneur
Pesticide
Transpiration
CDE
23. The female reproductive parts of a flower
Pistil
Olericulture
Soilless media
Horticulture
24. Growing media that lack any mineral soil
Growth regulators
Seed
Soilless media
Cultivar
25. Heat-treated lava rock that is light weight with low moisture and nutrient-holding capacity
Proficiency
Perlite
Vine
Ornamental horticulture
26. The branch of biology that deals with identifying and naming organisms
Taxonomy
Ground cover
Silt
Deciduous
27. A substance used to control rodents
Olericulture
Deciduous
Rodenticide
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
28. Supervised agriculture experience
Dicot
Fungicide
SAE
Signal words
29. Contains all three of the primary fertilizer nutrients (nitrogen - phosphorus - and potash)
Perlite
Complete fertilizer
Nomenclature
Rodenticide
30. Chemical messenger substance that affects plant growth
Sand
Perennial
Hormones
Silt
31. A plant that keeps its leaves year round
Vegetative
Evergreen
Field grow
Heat tolerance
32. The ability of a plant to withstand hot temperatures
Root
Risk
Asexual
Heat tolerance
33. The science and practice of growing - harvestin - handling - storing - processing - and marketing tree fruits
Fruit
Ground cover
Proficiency
Pomology
34. The proportion of sand - silt - and clay in soil
Germination
Tree
Potassium
Soil texture
35. Material used to control undesirable plants
Nutrient
Dicot
Phosphorus
Herbicide
36. Hormones and synthetic chemicals that inhibit or modify plant growth and development
Landscaping
Rodenticide
Ovary
Growth regulators
37. Material used to control nematodes
Hormones
Cultivar
Nematocide
Accident
38. A substance used to control undesirable fungi
Fungicide
Peat moss
Herbicide
Field grow
39. Fine-grained soil; smallest soil particle
Entrepreneur
Fungicide
Phosphorus
Clay
40. Exposure to danger or harm
Hazard
Biennial flower
SAE
Safety
41. Closely related organisms of one or more species that are grouped together
Herbaceous plant
Petal
Genus
Ornamental horticulture
42. Reproduction involving the male and female sex cells (pollen and egg)
Sexual
Floriculture
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Nematocide
43. 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
pH
Soil texture
Dicot
Evergreen
44. Material used to control mites
Ground cover
Transpiration
Fertilization
Miticide
45. Heat-treated mica that is light weight with nutrient and moisture-holding capacity
Vermiculite
Cellular respiration
Nematocide
Propagation
46. Words on a pesticide label used to alert the user to the toxicity of a pesticide (danger - caution - warning - poison)
Soilless media
Leaf
Signal words
Miticide
47. A group of organisms with characteristics that distinguish them from other groups in a genus
Species
Style
Variet
Annual flower
48. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Entrepreneur
Stigma
Morphology
Landscaping
49. Plants with one cotyledon - flower parts usually in multiples of three - leaf venation usually parallel - no secondary growth - vascular bundles scattered in the stem
Perlite
SAE
Monocot
Apical meristem
50. Lethal dose
Germination
Growth regulators
Nematocide
LD