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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Parent material moved by gravity






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






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






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






5. Protect the plant






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






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






8. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another






9. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported






10. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant






11. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style






12. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower






13. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






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






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






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






17. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.






18. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.






19. Leaf rust is a form of






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






21. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.






22. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.






23. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied






24. What do roots do for the plant






25. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem






26. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






27. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






28. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a






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






30. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.






34. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.






35. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves






36. The only vegetable used as a fruit






37. Parent material that the wind transports






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






39. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor






40. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year






41. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






42. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






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






45. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil






46. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.






47. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






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






50. The male portion of a flower