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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. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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






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






4. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






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






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






7. Determine how long is an internodes length






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






9. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.






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






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






12. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.






13. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side






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






15. Parent material that the wind transports






16. Formation of buds taking place.






17. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.






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






19. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms






20. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.






21. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.






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






23. The system using two names to identify plants.






24. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.






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






26. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.






27. What do roots do for the plant






28. 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.






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






30. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






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






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






33. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.






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






35. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller






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






37. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.






38. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






39. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






40. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source






41. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.






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






43. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures






44. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified






45. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.






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






47. 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.






48. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans






49. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened






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