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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.






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






3. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






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






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






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






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






9. Leaf rust is a form of






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






11. Parent material that the wind transports






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






13. Is change that is gradual






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






15. What do roots do for the plant






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Have a two - year growth cycle






21. Parent material moved by gravity






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






23. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






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






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






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






27. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






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






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






30. Is an equality in something visually attractive






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






32. A cluster or several flowers






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






34. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






35. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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






37. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






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






39. Support stems






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






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






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






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






44. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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