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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • 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. A cluster or several flowers






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






3. Is an equality in something visually attractive






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






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






6. Parent material that the wind transports






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






8. Leaf rust is a form of






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






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






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






12. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






14. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






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






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






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






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






19. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






20. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






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






22. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor






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






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






25. Protect the plant






26. The female portion of a flower






27. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






28. The male portion of a flower






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






30. The system using two names to identify plants.






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






32. The only vegetable used as a fruit






33. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans






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






35. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another






36. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






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






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






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






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






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






42. Plants retain their leaces all year






43. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






44. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






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






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






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






48. Determine how long is an internodes length






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






50. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.