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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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1. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Focalization
Biennial
Nutrient management plans
Binomial nomenclature
2. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Loess
Nutrient management plans
Bracts
Cuticle
3. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Decidious
Insert ingredients
Perennials
Fruit cracking
4. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Blossom - end rot
Pistil
Ridge till
Stems
5. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Rhubarb
Hydroponics
Monocots
Tendils
6. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
xylem
Mulch - Till
Blossom - end rot
Monocots
7. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Natural enemies
Stomata
Stigma
Ethylene
8. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Dicots
Varities
Compaction
A horizon
9. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Fruit
Bracts
Eolian
Monocots
10. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Cutin
Diffusion
Eolian
Evergreen
11. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Root hairs
Root interception
Perennials
Balance
12. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Cuticle
Tillage
Leaves
Spines
13. Formation of buds taking place.
Focalization
Nodes
Perennials
Active ingredients
14. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
Buds
Simplicity
Rhubarb
15. Leaf rust is a form of
Taproots
Harrowing
Aggregates
Fungi
16. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Compaction
Annuals
Stigma
Cotyledons
17. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Annuals
Aggregate fruits
Seed
Vegetable
18. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Catface
A horizon
Repetition
Evapotranspiration
19. 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.
Proportion
E horizon
Fruits
Lacustrine
20. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Dicots
Nutrient supply
Cotyledons
Harrowing
21. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Vegetable
Simplicity
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Yield potential
22. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Compaction
Anther
Stamen
Repetition
23. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
xylem
Mycoplasmas
Companion crops
Mass bulk/flow
24. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Self - sterile
Phloem
Fruits
25. The female portion of a flower
Pistil
A horizon
Taproots
No - till
26. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Sunscald
Seed
Diffusion
No - till
27. Determine how long is an internodes length
Focalization
Surge flow
A horizon
Temperature and light
28. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Blossom - end rot
Respiration
Self - fruitful
Nutrient supply
29. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Self - fruitful
Simplicity
Fruits
Rhubarb
30. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Stamen
Insert ingredients
Flowers
Evapotranspiration
31. Protect the plant
Focalization
Ridge till
Genus
Spines
32. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Balance
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Spines
Proportion
33. Is change that is gradual
Transition
Monocots
Anther
Focalization
34. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Self - fruitful
Simplicity
A horizon
Repetition
35. The male portion of a flower
Proportion
Stamen
Pistil
Biennial
36. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Vascular system
Anther
Back - siphoning
Fruit
37. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Taproots
Nitrogen fixation
Insert ingredients
Active ingredients
38. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Nutrient supply
Proportion
Insert ingredients
Annuals
39. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Pistil
Mulch - Till
Rhythm
Fruit cracking
40. 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.
Rhythm
Genus
Cambium
Tendils
41. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Erosion
Bracts
Fungi
Dicots
42. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Active ingredients
E horizon
Cross pollinization
Temperature and light
43. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Binomial nomenclature
Phloem
Fruit
Monoecious
44. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Anther
Binomial nomenclature
Dioecious
Nitrogen fixation
45. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Decidious
Respiration
Sunscald
Cuticle
46. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
xylem
Lacustrine
Back - siphoning
Bracts
47. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Fruit
Plant hardiness
Stigma
Cutin
48. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Respiration
Bracts
Surge flow
Fibrous roots
49. 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.
Blossom - end rot
Phloem
O horizon
Bracts
50. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Fumigant
Constructed wetlands
Dioecious
Cultivars