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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Is leading a visual observation toward a certain feature by planting the feature at a vanishing point that is between radial or approaching straight lines.






2. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.






3. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year






4. The system using two names to identify plants.






5. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant






6. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.






7. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






8. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.






9. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported






10. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.






11. Is an equality in something visually attractive






12. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.






13. Refers to the first name used in binomial nomenclature. Capitalized word that refers to a plant cluster that has similarities that can be recognized easily.






14. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem






15. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






16. Determine how long is an internodes length






17. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash






18. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.






19. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms






20. Below the E horizon - the ___ horizon is where fine material has accumulated to create a dense layer in the soil. May be enriched with calcium carbonate in the form of a layer or nodule.






21. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant






22. Plants retain their leaces all year






23. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






24. The male portion of a flower






25. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.






26. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.






27. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.






28. The female portion of a flower






29. Parent material moved by gravity






30. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.






31. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a






32. What do roots do for the plant






33. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






34. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.






35. Below the A horizon - the ___ horizon is usually light colored layer - with clay particles having been leached or removed. Contains organic matter as well as iron oxides and aluminum.






36. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth






37. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients






38. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.






39. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






40. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.






41. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil






42. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.






43. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves






44. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






45. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.






46. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.






47. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter






48. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






49. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the






50. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.