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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. Using indoor plants (also commonly referred to as "houseplants") to decorate or improve aesthetics inside a home or commerical building
Shade tree
Interiorscaping
Placement
Soil texture
2. A variety of control methods - such as cultural - mechanical - biological and chemical - used together to control pests
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Fertilization
Genus
Stem
3. The practice of growing and suing plants for decorative purposes
Ornamental horticulture
Seed
Nutrient
Growth regulators
4. Plants that shed their leaves in the fall
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Vegetative
Interiorscaping
Deciduous
5. A harvesting technique where a plant is dug without taking soil from the field
Bare root
Vegetative
Pomology
Biennial flower
6. Odorless - colorless nutrient needed for plant life
Ground cover
Nitrogen
Perennial
Hormones
7. Multi-stem - woody plants that do not exceed 20 feet in height
Style
Deciduous
Soil texture
Shrub
8. An event that happens unexpectedly or unintentionally
Phosphorus
Pollination
Shrub
Accident
9. 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
Fruit
Pest
Pomology
Photosynthesis
10. Using live plants to landscae indoor areas - also known as plantscaping
Transpiration
Silt
Filament
Interiorscaping
11. Plants with one cotyledon - flower parts usually in multiples of three - leaf venation usually parallel - no secondary growth - vascular bundles scattered in the stem
Style
Monocot
Hardiness
Soil texture
12. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Olericulture
Hazard
Hardiness
Perlite
13. The branch of biology that deals with the forms of organisms
Evergreen
Morphology
Interiorscaping
Ornamental tree
14. Lethal dose
LD
Hormones
Pomology
Ornamental tree
15. The beginning of growth from a seed
Phosphorus
Vermiculite
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Germination
16. The tube in the pistil that leads from the stigma to the ovary and through which pollen reaches the ova and egg
Proficiency
Landscaping
Style
Tree
17. Structure found at the top end of the pistil that contains a sticky surface on which pollen can be caught
Fertilizer
Stigma
Style
Root
18. The chance that an accident might occur during a research project
Fruit
Risk
Pollination
Vegetative
19. A plant that keeps its leaves year round
Molluscicide
Evergreen
Insecticide
Taxonomy
20. Fine-grained soil; smallest soil particle
Deciduous
Germination
Clay
Heat tolerance
21. The proportion of sand - silt - and clay in soil
Soil texture
Biennial flower
Sand
Hormones
22. Plants grown in normal soil in the ground
Field grow
Potassium
Filament
Woody Plant
23. Largest soil particle; hard - granular rock; finer than gravel and coarser than dust
Sand
Floriculture
Nomenclature
Variet
24. The science and practice of growing - harvesting - storing - designing - marketing - and distributing foliage and/or flowering plants
Floriculture
Shade tree
Nutrient
Miticide
25. The naming of organisms
Nomenclature
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Silt
Signal words
26. Growing media that lack any mineral soil
Soilless media
Sepal
Landscaping
Balled and burlapped
27. Leaf-like structures located inside the sepals that are often colorful
Tree
Stigma
Fungicide
Petal
28. Moss plants that grow on heath bogs
Cultivar
Container grown
Phosphorus
Peat moss
29. 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
Nomenclature
Ornamental tree
Perlite
Cultivar
30. Plants that are grown in manmade containers - such as clay or plastic pots or hanging baskets
Container grown
Placement
Signal words
Vine
31. Structure that has an embryo and a source of stored food contained within a protective coat
Nomenclature
Stomata
Floriculture
Seed
32. The science and practice of growing - harvestin - handling - storing - processing - and marketing tree fruits
Cellular respiration
Pomology
Cultivar
Peat moss
33. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Fertilization
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Ovary
34. Supervised agriculture experience
LD
Genus
Germination
SAE
35. Smaller trees of high ornamental value
Pollination
Field grow
Ornamental tree
Variet
36. The pores or openings in the epidermis of a leaf that allow the exchange of oxygen - carbon dioxide - and water vapor
Filament
Pomology
Stomata
Insecticide
37. Woody or herbaceous plant that forms a mat less than 1 foot high covering the ground
Stamen
Organic matter
Annual flower
Ground cover
38. Literally means "garden cultivation" - includes the cultivation - processing - and sale of fruits - nuts - vegetables - ornamental plants - and flowers
Field grow
Horticulture
Perennial
Pomology
39. A chemical element required for plant growth
Ornamental tree
Miticide
Nutrient
Peat moss
40. The fusion or joining of a sperm with an egg
Fertilization
Stem
Nematocide
Sexual
41. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the flower
Variet
Perennial
Shade tree
Pollination
42. A single-stem - woody - perennial plant reaching the height of 12 feet or more
Tree
Bare root
Hormones
LD
43. Material used to control insects
Perennial
Chloroplast
Ground cover
Insecticide
44. 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)
Cultivar
pH
Interiorscaping
45. Closely related organisms of one or more species that are grouped together
Peat moss
Flower
Species
Genus
46. The male reproductive parts of a flower
Leaf
Nutrient
Perlite
Stamen
47. The stalk-like part of the stamen that holds the anther
Genus
Filament
Flower
Insecticide
48. Material used to control mites
Fungicide
Organic matter
Miticide
Apical meristem
49. The primary growing point of the stem
Field grow
Fungicide
Floriculture
Apical meristem
50. A bluish-white - highly reactive - metallic element
Nematocide
Stem
Evergreen
Potassium