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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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botany
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Cultivars
Stems
Nutrient supply
Mulch - Till
2. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Erosion
Hydroponics
Taproots
Root interception
3. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Transition
Aggregates
Respiration
Pistil
4. Determine how long is an internodes length
Blossom - end rot
Cross pollinization
Cultivars
Temperature and light
5. 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.
Plant hardiness
Back - siphoning
Genus
Anther
6. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Seed
Plant hardiness
Monocots
Rhythm
7. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Unity
Tendils
Cutin
Compaction
8. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Stomata
Tendils
Monocots
Cutin
9. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Cultivars
Mycoplasmas
Rhubarb
Mulch - Till
10. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Seed
Evapotranspiration
Varities
Constructed wetlands
11. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Stamen
Diffusion
Nutrient supply
Aggregate fruits
12. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Catface
Natural enemies
Loess
Root interception
13. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Parent material
Cuticle
Ethylene
Aggregates
14. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Unity
Taproots
Cross pollinization
Focalization
15. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Fibrous roots
Mulch - Till
Simplicity
Sunscald
16. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Nutrient management plans
Nodes
Focalization
Plant hardiness
17. The male portion of a flower
Insert ingredients
Hydroponics
Stamen
E horizon
18. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Genus
No - till
B horizon
Residual
19. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Seed
Nodes
Cross pollinization
Surge flow
20. 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.
Decidious
Balance
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
E horizon
21. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Self - sterile
Leaves
Vegetable
Stomata
22. The female portion of a flower
Anther
Pistil
Cotyledons
O horizon
23. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Rhythm
Seed
Parent material
Hydroponics
24. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Hydroponics
Lacustrine
Cuticle
Catface
25. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Evergreen
Transpiration
Constructed wetlands
Bracts
26. 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.
Nutrient management plans
Perennials
O horizon
xylem
27. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Companion crops
No - till
Cuticle
Flowers
28. Is change that is gradual
Mass bulk/flow
xylem
Transition
Self - sterile
29. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Perennials
Fumigant
Cambium
Stigma
30. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Nutrient supply
Unity
Spines
Stomata
31. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Monocots
Cotyledons
Harrowing
Surge flow
32. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Monocots
Root hairs
Rhubarb
Taproots
33. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Dicots
Balance
Binomial nomenclature
Fruits
34. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Active ingredients
Self - fruitful
Fruit cracking
Focalization
35. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Back - siphoning
Catface
Evergreen
Parent material
36. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Parent material
Multiple fruits.
Cutin
37. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Parent material
Rhubarb
Surge flow
Hydroponics
38. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Nodes
Natural enemies
Surge flow
Lacustrine
39. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Repetition
Fungi
Rhubarb
Lacustrine
40. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Stomata
Catface
Proportion
Repetition
41. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Stigma
Genus
Taproots
Nutrient supply
42. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Balance
Self - sterile
No - till
Stigma
43. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Fruit
Mulch - Till
Tillage
Cutin
44. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
E horizon
Dioecious
Nitrogen fixation
Balance
45. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Focalization
Cutin
Hydroponics
Fruit cracking
46. Plants retain their leaces all year
Cuticle
Companion crops
Evergreen
Dicots
47. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Decidious
Dioecious
A horizon
Mulch - Till
48. 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
Ridge till
Monocots
xylem
49. What do roots do for the plant
Proportion
Fungi
Fruit cracking
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
50. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Transpiration
Stamen
Pistil
Evapotranspiration