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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Mass bulk/flow
Pistil
Perennials
2. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Proportion
Stigma
Spines
Active ingredients
3. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Monoecious
Transpiration
Simplicity
Flowers
4. Parent material that the wind transports
Perennials
Residual
Fumigant
Eolian
5. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Stomata
Loess
Nutrient supply
Root hairs
6. Protect the plant
Taproots
Tillage
Nutrient management plans
Spines
7. Leaf rust is a form of
Evergreen
Perennials
Fungi
Nodes
8. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Vegetable
Vascular system
Loess
Plant hardiness
9. Support stems
Loess
Bracts
Tendils
Annuals
10. Plants retain their leaces all year
Constructed wetlands
Evergreen
Varities
A horizon
11. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Self - sterile
Ethylene
Simplicity
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
12. Determine how long is an internodes length
Mycoplasmas
Residual
Buds
Temperature and light
13. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Phloem
Surge flow
Active ingredients
Aggregate fruits
14. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Fumigant
Mulch - Till
Leaves
Evergreen
15. Formation of buds taking place.
Photosynthesis
Nodes
Mass bulk/flow
Unity
16. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Integrated pest management
Lacustrine
Annuals
Respiration
17. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Transpiration
Photosynthesis
Simplicity
Tendils
18. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Balance
xylem
Monoecious
O horizon
19. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Erosion
Yield potential
Surge flow
Bracts
20. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Annuals
Cross pollinization
Respiration
Insert ingredients
21. 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.
Nitrogen fixation
Anther
Nutrient management plans
O horizon
22. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Self - fruitful
Balance
Pistil
Fruit
23. Parent material moved by gravity
Cutin
Cultivars
Proportion
Colluvium
24. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Diffusion
Residual
Cuticle
Bracts
25. The system using two names to identify plants.
Binomial nomenclature
Eolian
Cultivars
Seed
26. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Unity
No - till
Sunscald
Compaction
27. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Taproots
Simplicity
Cross pollinization
Perennials
28. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Annuals
Evapotranspiration
Stomata
Harrowing
29. 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.
Fruit cracking
Root interception
Focalization
Back - siphoning
30. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Decidious
Catface
Seed
Hydroponics
31. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cutin
Fruits
Decidious
32. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Respiration
Taproots
Mycoplasmas
Nutrient management plans
33. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Aggregate fruits
Stomata
Fruit
Self - fruitful
34. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Back - siphoning
Lacustrine
Insert ingredients
Parent material
35. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Blossom - end rot
Focalization
Catface
Loess
36. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
E horizon
Catface
Aggregate fruits
Binomial nomenclature
37. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Phloem
Stigma
Integrated pest management
Ridge till
38. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Evapotranspiration
xylem
Cultivars
Photosynthesis
39. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Cross pollinization
Bracts
Taproots
Nitrogen fixation
40. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Dioecious
Transpiration
Active ingredients
Constructed wetlands
41. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Root interception
Fibrous roots
Multiple fruits.
Cambium
42. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
A horizon
Specific epithet
Fruits
Diffusion
43. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Self - sterile
Aggregate fruits
Cultivars
44. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Transition
Spines
Rhythm
Flowers
45. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Cambium
Root hairs
Balance
B horizon
46. The female portion of a flower
Plant hardiness
Biennial
Pistil
Nutrient management plans
47. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Perennials
Focalization
Vegetable
Genus
48. Is change that is gradual
Transition
Unity
Surge flow
Vegetable
49. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Transpiration
Rhubarb
Spines
Decidious
50. 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
Residual
Harrowing
Nutrient management plans