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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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1. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Aggregate fruits
Perennials
Vascular system
Cross pollinization
2. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Focalization
Temperature and light
Natural enemies
Flowers
3. What do roots do for the plant
Sunscald
xylem
Tillage
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
4. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Surge flow
Stamen
Multiple fruits.
B horizon
5. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Constructed wetlands
Photosynthesis
Natural enemies
Annuals
6. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Back - siphoning
Focalization
Loess
Rhythm
7. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Repetition
Nodes
Leaves
Cross pollinization
8. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Cutin
Anther
B horizon
9. The male portion of a flower
Stamen
Mycoplasmas
Stomata
Genus
10. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Plant hardiness
No - till
O horizon
Decidious
11. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Loess
Lacustrine
Integrated pest management
Leaves
12. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Transition
Varities
Aggregate fruits
Simplicity
13. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Temperature and light
Yield potential
Monoecious
Blossom - end rot
14. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Leaves
Blossom - end rot
Evapotranspiration
Compaction
15. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Yield potential
Root hairs
Stems
Natural enemies
16. Protect the plant
Fibrous roots
Fruits
Spines
Taproots
17. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Unity
Dicots
Insert ingredients
Companion crops
18. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Constructed wetlands
Flowers
Vascular system
Monocots
19. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Evapotranspiration
Repetition
Specific epithet
Parent material
20. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Tillage
Cotyledons
Fruit cracking
Rhubarb
21. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Varities
Compaction
Ridge till
Genus
22. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Surge flow
Hydroponics
Mulch - Till
Spines
23. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Varities
Constructed wetlands
Plant hardiness
Photosynthesis
24. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Hydroponics
Cuticle
Root hairs
Residual
25. 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.
Fruit
Genus
Vascular system
Colluvium
26. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Buds
Fumigant
Temperature and light
Bracts
27. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
xylem
Vegetable
Colluvium
Anther
28. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Proportion
Aggregate fruits
Multiple fruits.
Fibrous roots
29. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Monoecious
Monocots
Binomial nomenclature
Residual
30. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Stigma
Cotyledons
Compaction
Repetition
31. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Fungi
Root interception
Decidious
Spines
32. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Specific epithet
Sunscald
Vegetable
Nodes
33. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Active ingredients
Nitrogen fixation
Hydroponics
Mycoplasmas
34. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Nitrogen fixation
Annuals
Genus
Natural enemies
35. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Annuals
Ridge till
Stomata
Transpiration
36. The system using two names to identify plants.
Stomata
Cross pollinization
Binomial nomenclature
Fibrous roots
37. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Yield potential
Decidious
Self - sterile
Sunscald
38. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Focalization
Stomata
Vegetable
Stems
39. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Respiration
Buds
Pistil
Erosion
40. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Nodes
Seed
Natural enemies
Biennial
41. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Proportion
Cotyledons
Residual
Fruit
42. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Blossom - end rot
Genus
Nutrient management plans
Leaves
43. 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.
Residual
Constructed wetlands
Balance
Focalization
44. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Back - siphoning
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Unity
Cotyledons
45. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Integrated pest management
Root hairs
xylem
Nitrogen fixation
46. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
A horizon
Photosynthesis
Buds
Mass bulk/flow
47. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
B horizon
Anther
Fumigant
48. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Evapotranspiration
Self - sterile
Fruits
Cuticle
49. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Vascular system
Monocots
Harrowing
Ethylene
50. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Natural enemies
Aggregate fruits
Erosion
Integrated pest management