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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. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Surge flow
Rhubarb
Cultivars
Constructed wetlands
2. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Residual
Pistil
Nutrient supply
Specific epithet
3. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Evapotranspiration
Self - sterile
No - till
Rhythm
4. Determine how long is an internodes length
Cutin
Spines
Temperature and light
Proportion
5. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Vegetable
Anther
Unity
Aggregate fruits
6. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Buds
Nutrient supply
Blossom - end rot
Companion crops
7. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Parent material
Repetition
Stomata
Active ingredients
8. Is change that is gradual
Transition
Focalization
Insert ingredients
Genus
9. Formation of buds taking place.
Self - fruitful
Nodes
Proportion
Plant hardiness
10. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Fruits
Anther
Parent material
Seed
11. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Transpiration
Specific epithet
Mycoplasmas
Parent material
12. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Cambium
Cotyledons
Lacustrine
Integrated pest management
13. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Sunscald
Fumigant
O horizon
Constructed wetlands
14. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Cultivars
Parent material
Cambium
Root hairs
15. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Root interception
Sunscald
Flowers
Multiple fruits.
16. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Nutrient supply
Focalization
Nitrogen fixation
Fumigant
17. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Cutin
Root hairs
Seed
Decidious
18. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Fibrous roots
Temperature and light
Mycoplasmas
Compaction
19. Leaf rust is a form of
Specific epithet
Nodes
Plant hardiness
Fungi
20. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Varities
Rhubarb
Blossom - end rot
Aggregate fruits
21. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Evergreen
Yield potential
No - till
Phloem
22. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Aggregates
Tendils
Hydroponics
Parent material
23. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Flowers
Nutrient management plans
Colluvium
Aggregate fruits
24. 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.
Taproots
Cutin
Buds
Genus
25. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Rhythm
Catface
Cotyledons
Cross pollinization
26. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Cambium
Fruit
Nitrogen fixation
Transpiration
27. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Catface
Blossom - end rot
Anther
Tillage
28. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Aggregates
Mycoplasmas
Stems
Flowers
29. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Residual
Mass bulk/flow
Fungi
Varities
30. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Companion crops
Photosynthesis
Buds
Erosion
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.
Diffusion
Mycoplasmas
Focalization
Natural enemies
32. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Aggregates
A horizon
Respiration
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
33. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Loess
Buds
Phloem
Monocots
34. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Phloem
Proportion
A horizon
Ethylene
35. The system using two names to identify plants.
Stamen
Natural enemies
Binomial nomenclature
Integrated pest management
36. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Pistil
Fruits
Tendils
Stomata
37. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Unity
Insert ingredients
Varities
Lacustrine
38. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Diffusion
Bracts
Harrowing
Fruits
39. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Active ingredients
Lacustrine
Hydroponics
Monocots
40. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Cutin
Stamen
Respiration
Active ingredients
41. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Stems
Annuals
O horizon
Tillage
42. Have a two - year growth cycle
Natural enemies
Biennial
Transition
Cotyledons
43. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Evergreen
No - till
Parent material
Seed
44. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Integrated pest management
Surge flow
Dioecious
Focalization
45. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Nutrient supply
Aggregate fruits
Eolian
Photosynthesis
46. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Lacustrine
Varities
Stamen
Harrowing
47. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Vegetable
Spines
Loess
Aggregate fruits
48. Parent material moved by gravity
Fungi
Mulch - Till
Colluvium
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
49. Support stems
Taproots
Tendils
xylem
Nodes
50. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Evapotranspiration
Fruits
Aggregate fruits
Binomial nomenclature