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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Parent material moved by gravity
Colluvium
Varities
Back - siphoning
Phloem
2. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Transpiration
A horizon
Cuticle
Diffusion
3. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Compaction
A horizon
Tendils
Self - fruitful
4. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Transition
Harrowing
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Biennial
5. Protect the plant
Nitrogen fixation
Spines
Fibrous roots
Tillage
6. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Lacustrine
Self - sterile
Residual
Mycoplasmas
7. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Respiration
Mass bulk/flow
Mulch - Till
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
8. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Stigma
Cross pollinization
Loess
Stomata
9. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Residual
Seed
Evapotranspiration
Proportion
10. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Vascular system
Tendils
Multiple fruits.
Mass bulk/flow
11. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Multiple fruits.
Colluvium
Unity
12. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Surge flow
Nutrient management plans
Vegetable
Anther
13. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Anther
E horizon
Vegetable
Nodes
14. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Fruits
Vegetable
Simplicity
Constructed wetlands
15. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Evapotranspiration
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Mass bulk/flow
Cuticle
16. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Proportion
Self - fruitful
Sunscald
Hydroponics
17. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Hydroponics
Mass bulk/flow
Yield potential
Nutrient supply
18. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Plant hardiness
Dicots
Aggregates
Cultivars
19. Leaf rust is a form of
Fungi
Stomata
Repetition
Focalization
20. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Cambium
Focalization
Surge flow
Leaves
21. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Blossom - end rot
Stamen
Yield potential
Transpiration
22. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Rhubarb
Harrowing
Fumigant
Repetition
23. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Rhubarb
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Fumigant
Proportion
24. What do roots do for the plant
Fruit cracking
Tillage
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Tendils
25. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
No - till
Cambium
Back - siphoning
Annuals
26. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Balance
Nodes
Specific epithet
Cotyledons
27. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Colluvium
Rhythm
Ethylene
Photosynthesis
28. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Seed
Taproots
Monocots
Ethylene
29. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
No - till
Stomata
Cotyledons
Nutrient management plans
30. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Fibrous roots
Evergreen
Rhythm
Photosynthesis
31. 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.
Focalization
Rhythm
Vascular system
Anther
32. The ___ horizon tops the profile and contains mostly organic matter - with a decomposed vegetation structure that enriches the soil with nutrients and helps it retain moisture.
Multiple fruits.
B horizon
O horizon
Proportion
33. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Anther
Balance
Monocots
Integrated pest management
34. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Stigma
Tendils
Monocots
Monoecious
35. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Transpiration
Compaction
Unity
Specific epithet
36. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Nutrient management plans
O horizon
Rhubarb
Dicots
37. Parent material that the wind transports
Nutrient management plans
Proportion
Eolian
Harrowing
38. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Insert ingredients
Integrated pest management
Tendils
Nutrient management plans
39. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Sunscald
Loess
Stomata
Taproots
40. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Binomial nomenclature
Yield potential
Varities
Perennials
41. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Transpiration
Stamen
Vegetable
Erosion
42. Plants retain their leaces all year
Evergreen
Aggregates
Perennials
Fibrous roots
43. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Monoecious
Genus
Cultivars
Evergreen
44. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Varities
Compaction
Erosion
Companion crops
45. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Taproots
Erosion
Pistil
Flowers
46. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Respiration
Lacustrine
Spines
Residual
47. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Anther
Transition
Fibrous roots
Self - sterile
48. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Fungi
Catface
Rhythm
Dioecious
49. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Rhubarb
Transition
Root hairs
Spines
50. The male portion of a flower
Companion crops
Proportion
A horizon
Stamen