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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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botany
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Harrowing
Cultivars
Simplicity
Erosion
2. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Hydroponics
Insert ingredients
No - till
Nodes
3. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Vegetable
Root interception
Dioecious
Evergreen
4. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Simplicity
Tillage
Cross pollinization
A horizon
5. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Colluvium
Hydroponics
Ethylene
Cutin
6. Plants retain their leaces all year
Colluvium
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixation
Leaves
7. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Cuticle
Vegetable
Varities
Nodes
8. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Rhubarb
Plant hardiness
Root hairs
Root interception
9. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Sunscald
Active ingredients
Perennials
Annuals
10. Leaf rust is a form of
Simplicity
Fungi
Proportion
Rhythm
11. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Surge flow
Rhubarb
Natural enemies
Vegetable
12. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Unity
Nodes
E horizon
Pistil
13. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Fruits
Seed
Tendils
14. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Yield potential
Vegetable
Varities
Transpiration
15. 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.
B horizon
Lacustrine
Taproots
Cambium
16. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Buds
Phloem
Stems
Surge flow
17. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Fumigant
Mulch - Till
Fruits
Decidious
18. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Nutrient management plans
Cross pollinization
Repetition
Seed
19. Have a two - year growth cycle
Photosynthesis
Cultivars
Colluvium
Biennial
20. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Phloem
Fungi
Proportion
Hydroponics
21. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Aggregate fruits
Eolian
Compaction
Back - siphoning
22. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Specific epithet
Loess
Cotyledons
Anther
23. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Multiple fruits.
Varities
Bracts
Annuals
24. The female portion of a flower
Mulch - Till
Cross pollinization
Pistil
Catface
25. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Vascular system
Yield potential
E horizon
Nutrient supply
26. 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.
E horizon
Nodes
Vegetable
Bracts
27. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Stomata
Plant hardiness
E horizon
Cultivars
28. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Respiration
Compaction
Balance
Nutrient management plans
29. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Nutrient supply
Constructed wetlands
Vegetable
Harrowing
30. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Nutrient management plans
Rhubarb
No - till
Root interception
31. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Parent material
Perennials
Spines
Companion crops
32. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Fruit
Monocots
Blossom - end rot
Monoecious
33. Parent material moved by gravity
Mycoplasmas
Rhythm
Colluvium
Balance
34. Support stems
Integrated pest management
Transition
Tendils
Fungi
35. What do roots do for the plant
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Tillage
Residual
Self - sterile
36. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Vegetable
Seed
Mulch - Till
Phloem
37. 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.
Focalization
Buds
Dicots
O horizon
38. Parent material that the wind transports
Eolian
Cutin
Taproots
Constructed wetlands
39. The ___ horizon tops the profile and contains mostly organic matter - with a decomposed vegetation structure that enriches the soil with nutrients and helps it retain moisture.
O horizon
Ethylene
B horizon
Nutrient supply
40. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Integrated pest management
Simplicity
Transition
Erosion
41. Protect the plant
Monocots
Spines
Rhubarb
Active ingredients
42. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Yield potential
Ethylene
Stomata
Balance
43. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Back - siphoning
Cuticle
Dioecious
Stigma
44. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Taproots
Biennial
Back - siphoning
Colluvium
45. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Stamen
Simplicity
Natural enemies
Stems
46. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Fruits
Vascular system
Lacustrine
Nutrient management plans
47. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Blossom - end rot
Fumigant
Parent material
Varities
48. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Tendils
Sunscald
Cultivars
xylem
49. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Root interception
Photosynthesis
Specific epithet
Self - fruitful
50. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Phloem
Nutrient supply
Mass bulk/flow
Compaction