SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Praxis Plant Science Botany
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
praxis
,
botany
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Blossom - end rot
Cambium
Multiple fruits.
Monoecious
2. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Catface
Transition
Residual
Balance
3. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Taproots
Active ingredients
Fibrous roots
Erosion
4. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Aggregates
Vegetable
Varities
Spines
5. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Yield potential
Biennial
Companion crops
Specific epithet
6. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
B horizon
Cuticle
Cotyledons
Focalization
7. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Hydroponics
Flowers
Parent material
Loess
8. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Aggregate fruits
Constructed wetlands
Mass bulk/flow
Self - fruitful
9. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Cross pollinization
Nitrogen fixation
Integrated pest management
Balance
10. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Buds
Balance
Stomata
Multiple fruits.
11. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Catface
Cuticle
Diffusion
Anther
12. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Repetition
Yield potential
Fumigant
Surge flow
13. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Repetition
Phloem
Biennial
Aggregates
14. Protect the plant
Monoecious
Vegetable
Diffusion
Spines
15. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Seed
Varities
Lacustrine
Fibrous roots
16. Plants retain their leaces all year
Yield potential
Nodes
Flowers
Evergreen
17. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Ridge till
Fibrous roots
Leaves
Vascular system
18. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Fruits
B horizon
Taproots
Lacustrine
19. Is change that is gradual
No - till
Vegetable
Transition
Rhythm
20. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Cuticle
Erosion
Nitrogen fixation
Active ingredients
21. A cluster or several flowers
Multiple fruits.
Erosion
Active ingredients
Mass bulk/flow
22. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Bracts
Active ingredients
Self - fruitful
Yield potential
23. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Stigma
Nitrogen fixation
Blossom - end rot
Photosynthesis
24. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Unity
A horizon
Fibrous roots
Temperature and light
25. 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.
Stigma
Cultivars
O horizon
Self - sterile
26. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
xylem
Repetition
Mass bulk/flow
Root hairs
27. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Tillage
Unity
Active ingredients
Rhubarb
28. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Mulch - Till
Natural enemies
Proportion
Dioecious
29. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
E horizon
Hydroponics
Mycoplasmas
Fibrous roots
30. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Flowers
Compaction
Transition
Binomial nomenclature
31. The system using two names to identify plants.
Fungi
Cambium
Binomial nomenclature
Catface
32. 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.
Cotyledons
Binomial nomenclature
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
B horizon
33. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Balance
Varities
Respiration
Leaves
34. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
A horizon
Tillage
Cuticle
Stems
35. Determine how long is an internodes length
Temperature and light
Anther
Diffusion
Fibrous roots
36. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Temperature and light
Fruit
Leaves
Genus
37. Leaf rust is a form of
Fungi
Eolian
Binomial nomenclature
Seed
38. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Seed
Dicots
Evergreen
Monoecious
39. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Fumigant
Proportion
Decidious
Spines
40. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Cultivars
Rhubarb
Fibrous roots
Plant hardiness
41. The male portion of a flower
Flowers
Stamen
Erosion
Surge flow
42. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Fumigant
Insert ingredients
Fruit cracking
Evapotranspiration
43. 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.
Stems
Phloem
E horizon
Leaves
44. Formation of buds taking place.
Seed
Nodes
Proportion
Balance
45. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Seed
Nutrient supply
Mass bulk/flow
Colluvium
46. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Proportion
Stigma
Vascular system
Fungi
47. Support stems
Active ingredients
Stigma
Blossom - end rot
Tendils
48. The female portion of a flower
Tillage
Fruits
Pistil
Nutrient supply
49. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Fruit cracking
Fruits
No - till
Sunscald
50. 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.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
xylem
Stigma
Focalization