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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.






2. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






14. Determine how long is an internodes length






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






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






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






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






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






20. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves






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






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






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






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






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






26. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






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






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






29. The female portion of a flower






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






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






32. Parent material that the wind transports






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






34. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






35. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






36. Support stems






37. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






38. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems






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






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






41. Plants retain their leaces all year






42. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant






43. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






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






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






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






47. What do roots do for the plant






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






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






50. Are those chemicals that control a target pest