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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. Leaf rust is a form of
Diffusion
Harrowing
Plant hardiness
Fungi
2. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Tendils
Evergreen
Constructed wetlands
Fruit
3. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Respiration
Rhythm
Mulch - Till
Loess
4. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Self - fruitful
Natural enemies
Lacustrine
Aggregates
5. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Tendils
Vascular system
Hydroponics
Yield potential
6. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Compaction
Tendils
Self - sterile
Fruits
7. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Cultivars
Self - sterile
Fruits
Integrated pest management
8. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Photosynthesis
Multiple fruits.
Loess
Stems
9. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Photosynthesis
Varities
Annuals
Aggregates
10. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Bracts
Leaves
Companion crops
Monocots
11. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Fibrous roots
Cambium
Loess
Cultivars
12. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Seed
Monocots
Flowers
Hydroponics
13. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Natural enemies
Mulch - Till
Fumigant
Constructed wetlands
14. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Pistil
Root interception
Back - siphoning
Evergreen
15. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Balance
Stems
Vegetable
Annuals
16. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Biennial
Evapotranspiration
Harrowing
Fruit cracking
17. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Multiple fruits.
Harrowing
Cambium
Compaction
18. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Taproots
Insert ingredients
Yield potential
Ridge till
19. A cluster or several flowers
Sunscald
Root hairs
Multiple fruits.
Specific epithet
20. Support stems
Tendils
Balance
Dioecious
Stems
21. Have a two - year growth cycle
Dicots
Biennial
Mass bulk/flow
Genus
22. Protect the plant
Active ingredients
Pistil
Spines
Transition
23. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cambium
Phloem
Mycoplasmas
24. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Monocots
Ridge till
Specific epithet
Anther
25. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Nodes
Specific epithet
Fruits
Bracts
26. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Aggregate fruits
Multiple fruits.
Fibrous roots
Repetition
27. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Insert ingredients
Rhythm
Loess
Blossom - end rot
28. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Root hairs
Erosion
Natural enemies
Mulch - Till
29. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Active ingredients
Mycoplasmas
Tillage
Residual
30. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Natural enemies
Evapotranspiration
Tillage
Mass bulk/flow
31. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Simplicity
Nodes
Respiration
Annuals
32. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Multiple fruits.
Companion crops
E horizon
Residual
33. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Mass bulk/flow
Respiration
Nutrient supply
Vegetable
34. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Stems
Anther
Buds
Natural enemies
35. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Constructed wetlands
Cotyledons
Proportion
Balance
36. 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.
B horizon
Bracts
Focalization
Hydroponics
37. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Natural enemies
Annuals
No - till
Dicots
38. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Pistil
Nutrient management plans
Transition
Residual
39. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Unity
Companion crops
Fibrous roots
O horizon
40. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Stamen
Surge flow
Compaction
Nutrient supply
41. Is change that is gradual
Temperature and light
Flowers
Transition
Mulch - Till
42. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Root interception
Mulch - Till
Dioecious
Unity
43. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Repetition
Respiration
Dioecious
Diffusion
44. Parent material moved by gravity
Rhubarb
Colluvium
Spines
Monoecious
45. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Biennial
Monocots
Transpiration
46. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Rhubarb
Dicots
Simplicity
Cultivars
47. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Rhythm
Erosion
Tillage
Dicots
48. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Catface
Unity
Mass bulk/flow
Insert ingredients
49. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Fruits
Anther
Stamen
Aggregates
50. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Dioecious
Balance
Monoecious
Diffusion