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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. Growing media that lack any mineral soil
Soilless media
Sexual
Leaf
pH
2. Odorless - colorless nutrient needed for plant life
Placement
Proficiency
Nitrogen
Vine
3. Smaller trees of high ornamental value
Ornamental tree
Soil texture
Field grow
Heat tolerance
4. The male reproductive parts of a flower
Molluscicide
Ornamental tree
Stamen
Herbicide
5. The water loss from plant tissues
Style
Molluscicide
Nomenclature
Transpiration
6. An event that happens unexpectedly or unintentionally
Accident
Propagation
Interiorscaping
Signal words
7. A state of being free of danger and injury
Safety
Annual flower
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
CDE
8. Chemical messenger substance that affects plant growth
Hormones
Leaf
Stem
Shade tree
9. Chemical reaction in which stored food energy is made available for plants and animals
Sexual
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
SAE
Cellular respiration
10. The lower part of the pistil that contains one or more ovules or the part in which the eggs are produced and seeds develop
Cultivar
Pollination
Ornamental tree
Ovary
11. Heat-treated lava rock that is light weight with low moisture and nutrient-holding capacity
Sexual
Stomata
Vegetative
Perlite
12. Leaf-like structures located inside the sepals that are often colorful
Petal
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Vermiculite
Safety
13. The tube in the pistil that leads from the stigma to the ovary and through which pollen reaches the ova and egg
Safety
Molluscicide
Vegetative
Style
14. The reproduction of plants by seed - cuttings - budding - or grafting to increase in number - to reproduce
Propagation
Proficiency
Risk
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
15. A plant that lives for more than two seasons
Molluscicide
Stamen
Perennial
Interiorscaping
16. A variety of control methods - such as cultural - mechanical - biological and chemical - used together to control pests
Ground cover
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Pistil
Herbaceous plant
17. Words on a pesticide label used to alert the user to the toxicity of a pesticide (danger - caution - warning - poison)
Herbaceous plant
Signal words
Apical meristem
CDE
18. Any material used to provide nutrients that plants need
Soil texture
Apical meristem
Stamen
Fertilizer
19. Material used to kill or repel pests
Dicot
Pesticide
Fungicide
Molluscicide
20. Anything unwanted
Balled and burlapped
Growth regulators
Pest
Propagation
21. The branch of biology that deals with identifying and naming organisms
Hardiness
Taxonomy
Fertilizer
Morphology
22. A harvesting technique where a plant is dug keeping a ball of soil around the root system and covering it with burlap to hold the soil and roots together
Pest
Balled and burlapped
Hazard
Filament
23. The pores or openings in the epidermis of a leaf that allow the exchange of oxygen - carbon dioxide - and water vapor
Proficiency
Stomata
Chloroplast
Pomology
24. Woody or herbaceous plant that forms a mat less than 1 foot high covering the ground
Ground cover
CDE
Signal words
Soil texture
25. A non-woody plant that dies back to the ground each year
Variet
Proficiency
Herbaceous plant
Apical meristem
26. Woody or herbaceous plant that require some type of support
Phosphorus
Vine
Photosynthesis
Style
27. The science and practice of installing - maintaining - and using grasses - plants - shrubs - and trees in the landscape
Pollination
Herbaceous plant
Olericulture
Shade tree
28. Closely related organisms of one or more species that are grouped together
Petal
Pollination
Fertilization
Genus
29. The practice of growing and suing plants for decorative purposes
Ornamental horticulture
Signal words
Placement
Apical meristem
30. Structure found at the top end of the pistil that contains a sticky surface on which pollen can be caught
Horticulture
Cultivar
Sepal
Stigma
31. The specialized organelle in green plants in which photosynthesis takes place
Morphology
Chloroplast
Perlite
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
32. Plants with one cotyledon - flower parts usually in multiples of three - leaf venation usually parallel - no secondary growth - vascular bundles scattered in the stem
Leaf
Fertilization
Monocot
Sexual
33. Material used to control undesirable plants
SAE
Herbicide
Photosynthesis
Deciduous
34. A substance used to control rodents
Vine
Tree
Shrub
Rodenticide
35. An outgrowth from a plant that constitutes part of the foliage and functions primarily in food manufacture by photosynthesis
Leaf
Asexual
Balled and burlapped
Seed
36. A plant that completes its life cycle in two seasons
CDE
Horticulture
Petal
Biennial flower
37. Career Development Event
CDE
Nutrient
Perlite
Olericulture
38. An award for an individual's SAE
Pesticide
Proficiency
Chloroplast
Interiorscaping
39. Using live plants to landscae indoor areas - also known as plantscaping
Clay
Interiorscaping
Pollination
Landscaping
40. Cultivated plants within a species that show a significant difference from other plants in the species
Potassium
Placement
Variet
Species
41. Lethal dose
Miticide
LD
Fertilization
Balled and burlapped
42. A plant that keeps its leaves year round
Pest
Miticide
Signal words
Evergreen
43. Fine particles of soil; smaller than sand and larger than clay
Silt
Evergreen
Perlite
Pollination
44. A harvesting technique where a plant is dug without taking soil from the field
SAE
Heat tolerance
Vermiculite
Bare root
45. Multi-stem - woody plants that do not exceed 20 feet in height
Hormones
Stomata
Organic matter
Shrub
46. A plant that produces wood and has buds above the ground that survive winter
Ornamental tree
Woody Plant
Nomenclature
Filament
47. 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
Potassium
Taxonomy
Fertilizer
Root
48. The proportion of sand - silt - and clay in soil
Chloroplast
Silt
Soil texture
Miticide
49. 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
Pollination
Deciduous
Photosynthesis
50. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the flower
Pesticide
Stomata
Pollination
Molluscicide