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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down






2. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant






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






4. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash






5. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller






6. Leaf rust is a form of






7. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.






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






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






10. Support stems






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






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






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






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






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






16. The male portion of a flower






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






18. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






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






20. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.






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






22. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients






23. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.






24. Have a two - year growth cycle






25. Formation of buds taking place.






26. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.






27. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.






28. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.






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






30. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






31. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






32. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






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






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






35. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same






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






37. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season






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






39. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






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






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






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






43. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






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






45. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened






46. Is change that is gradual






47. 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.






48. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures






49. Below the E horizon - the ___ horizon is where fine material has accumulated to create a dense layer in the soil. May be enriched with calcium carbonate in the form of a layer or nodule.






50. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.