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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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1. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.






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






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






4. The system using two names to identify plants.






5. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






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






7. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






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






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






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






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






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






13. Parent material moved by gravity






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






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






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






17. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies






18. Leaf rust is a form of






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






20. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.






21. Have a two - year growth cycle






22. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






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






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






25. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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






27. The male portion of a flower






28. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






29. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






30. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.






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






32. Is change that is gradual






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






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






35. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






37. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






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






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






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






41. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






42. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






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






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






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






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






47. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.






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






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






50. Are those chemicals that control a target pest







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