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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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  • 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. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash






2. Formation of buds taking place.






3. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style






4. Protect the plant






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






6. 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.






7. Are those chemicals that control a target pest






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






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






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






11. The female portion of a flower






12. Is an equality in something visually attractive






13. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.






14. The system that moves water and minerals is called a






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






16. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






22. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






23. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied






24. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side






25. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.






26. The male portion of a flower






27. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.






28. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






29. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.






30. Leaf rust is a form of






31. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source






32. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






33. What do roots do for the plant






34. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower






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






36. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.






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






38. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.






39. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.






40. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.






41. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






42. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.






43. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems






44. A cluster or several flowers






45. Determine how long is an internodes length






46. Plants retain their leaces all year






47. 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.






48. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.






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






50. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.