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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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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. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Parent material
Ridge till
Dioecious
Simplicity
2. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Root interception
Nutrient supply
Blossom - end rot
Nitrogen fixation
3. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Residual
O horizon
Stamen
Yield potential
4. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Pistil
Transition
Stigma
Cotyledons
5. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Transpiration
Anther
Transition
Cultivars
6. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Harrowing
Transpiration
Hydroponics
Photosynthesis
7. 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.
B horizon
Catface
O horizon
Spines
8. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Multiple fruits.
Cuticle
Loess
Hydroponics
9. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Binomial nomenclature
Buds
Ethylene
Rhubarb
10. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Ethylene
Temperature and light
Sunscald
Insert ingredients
11. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Fruit cracking
Taproots
Residual
Stems
12. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Ridge till
A horizon
Stems
Flowers
13. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Cultivars
Repetition
O horizon
Fruit cracking
14. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Perennials
Rhubarb
Ethylene
Eolian
15. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Mass bulk/flow
Spines
Seed
Lacustrine
16. Support stems
Tendils
A horizon
Leaves
Cambium
17. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Lacustrine
Mycoplasmas
Cultivars
Multiple fruits.
18. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Rhubarb
Companion crops
Flowers
Taproots
19. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Tendils
Focalization
No - till
Yield potential
20. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Loess
O horizon
Fruit
Cotyledons
21. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Mulch - Till
Ridge till
Tillage
Residual
22. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Evapotranspiration
Fruit
Unity
Biennial
23. A cluster or several flowers
Companion crops
Dioecious
Multiple fruits.
Unity
24. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
A horizon
Fungi
Blossom - end rot
25. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
B horizon
Tendils
Varities
26. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Compaction
Sunscald
Fumigant
Cuticle
27. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Nutrient management plans
Stems
Seed
Cambium
28. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Annuals
Hydroponics
Evapotranspiration
Vegetable
29. Parent material that the wind transports
Pistil
No - till
Evergreen
Eolian
30. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Cross pollinization
Leaves
Decidious
Fruits
31. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Taproots
Balance
Anther
Residual
32. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Yield potential
Balance
A horizon
Vegetable
33. 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.
Aggregate fruits
Lacustrine
Genus
Leaves
34. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Proportion
Genus
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Fruit cracking
35. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Cultivars
Genus
Natural enemies
Evergreen
36. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
xylem
Self - fruitful
Aggregate fruits
Rhythm
37. The male portion of a flower
Stamen
Root interception
Erosion
Repetition
38. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Blossom - end rot
Decidious
Balance
Fumigant
39. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Cultivars
A horizon
Blossom - end rot
Rhubarb
40. What do roots do for the plant
Respiration
Monocots
Plant hardiness
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
41. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Insert ingredients
Root interception
Hydroponics
Eolian
42. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Tendils
Specific epithet
O horizon
xylem
43. Plants retain their leaces all year
Anther
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Evergreen
Colluvium
44. Determine how long is an internodes length
Temperature and light
Phloem
B horizon
Nutrient supply
45. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Aggregate fruits
Ethylene
Tendils
Anther
46. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Eolian
Balance
Blossom - end rot
Parent material
47. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Residual
Catface
Nutrient supply
Seed
48. 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
Root interception
Self - fruitful
Vascular system
49. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Multiple fruits.
Cotyledons
Nutrient management plans
Decidious
50. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Mass bulk/flow
A horizon
Nutrient supply
Nitrogen fixation