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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 created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Stems
A horizon
Nutrient supply
Aggregates
2. Parent material that the wind transports
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Eolian
Tillage
Harrowing
3. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Evapotranspiration
Photosynthesis
Natural enemies
O horizon
4. The male portion of a flower
Stomata
Stamen
Fruits
Varities
5. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Repetition
Dicots
Cross pollinization
O horizon
6. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Cultivars
B horizon
Root interception
Integrated pest management
7. A cluster or several flowers
Fumigant
Aggregate fruits
Compaction
Multiple fruits.
8. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Tendils
Diffusion
Perennials
Yield potential
9. The system using two names to identify plants.
Cultivars
Root hairs
Biennial
Binomial nomenclature
10. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Harrowing
Erosion
Root hairs
Stems
11. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Transpiration
Compaction
Spines
Tendils
12. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Vascular system
Aggregate fruits
Residual
Plant hardiness
13. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Taproots
xylem
Cross pollinization
Biennial
14. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Self - fruitful
Dioecious
Root hairs
Phloem
15. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Balance
Parent material
Mycoplasmas
Monoecious
16. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Anther
Specific epithet
Cross pollinization
Back - siphoning
17. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Cultivars
Fruit
A horizon
Fumigant
18. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Cotyledons
Root interception
Repetition
Self - sterile
19. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Parent material
Balance
Mulch - Till
Fibrous roots
20. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Decidious
Seed
Tillage
Anther
21. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Dicots
Nitrogen fixation
Simplicity
Nutrient supply
22. The female portion of a flower
Eolian
Pistil
Ethylene
Aggregates
23. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Aggregates
Nutrient management plans
Companion crops
Fruit cracking
24. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Compaction
Dioecious
Rhubarb
Sunscald
25. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Erosion
Perennials
Insert ingredients
Balance
26. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Tillage
Vascular system
Ridge till
Plant hardiness
27. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Dioecious
Root hairs
Simplicity
Annuals
28. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Annuals
Nodes
Cross pollinization
Fruit cracking
29. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Taproots
No - till
E horizon
Aggregates
30. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Ridge till
Stems
Monoecious
Catface
31. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Binomial nomenclature
Cuticle
Nutrient management plans
Monoecious
32. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Cutin
Phloem
Photosynthesis
33. Determine how long is an internodes length
Temperature and light
Diffusion
Parent material
Root interception
34. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Root interception
Eolian
Catface
Self - sterile
35. Protect the plant
Perennials
Self - sterile
Spines
Varities
36. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Fumigant
Unity
Repetition
A horizon
37. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Insert ingredients
Pistil
Stigma
Leaves
38. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Tillage
Cutin
Fruit cracking
Photosynthesis
39. 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.
Cotyledons
B horizon
Cultivars
Transpiration
40. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Decidious
Surge flow
Back - siphoning
Rhythm
41. 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.
Genus
Flowers
Decidious
O horizon
42. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Nutrient management plans
Blossom - end rot
Constructed wetlands
Self - fruitful
43. Leaf rust is a form of
Cuticle
Annuals
E horizon
Fungi
44. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Fruit
Harrowing
Residual
Biennial
45. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Surge flow
Mulch - Till
Rhubarb
Active ingredients
46. 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.
E horizon
Mycoplasmas
Active ingredients
Fruits
47. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Evapotranspiration
Decidious
Colluvium
Genus
48. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Natural enemies
Ethylene
Stamen
Rhubarb
49. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
A horizon
Flowers
Cutin
Parent material
50. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Repetition
Varities
Erosion
Plant hardiness