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






2. The female portion of a flower






3. The male portion of a flower






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. Parent material moved by gravity






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






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






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






16. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






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






19. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






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






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






22. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






23. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






32. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






33. Determine how long is an internodes length






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






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






36. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






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






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






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






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






46. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down






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






48. What do roots do for the plant






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






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