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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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1. 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.






2. Leaf rust is a form of






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






4. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down






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






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






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






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






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






10. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






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






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






13. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.






21. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season






22. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter






23. Formation of buds taking place.






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






25. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






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






27. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth






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






29. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients






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






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






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






33. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.






34. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the






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






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






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






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






39. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.






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.






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






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






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






44. Is an equality in something visually attractive






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






46. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






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






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






49. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.






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