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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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  • 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. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor






2. The system using two names to identify plants.






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






4. A cluster or several flowers






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






6. The female portion of a flower






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






8. The system that moves water and minerals is called a






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






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






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






12. Leaf rust is a form of






13. Formation of buds taking place.






14. 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.






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






16. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






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






27. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.






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






29. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






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






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






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






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






34. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






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






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






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






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






39. Parent material moved by gravity






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






41. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.






42. Plants retain their leaces all year






43. Parent material that the wind transports






44. Determine how long is an internodes length






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






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






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






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






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






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