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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a






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






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






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






5. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






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






7. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






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






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






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






11. The female portion of a flower






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






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






26. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






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






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






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






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






31. Plants retain their leaces all year






32. Have a two - year growth cycle






33. Formation of buds taking place.






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






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






36. Parent material that the wind transports






37. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






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






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






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






41. A cluster or several flowers






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






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






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






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






46. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






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






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






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