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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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1. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year






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






3. What do roots do for the plant






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






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






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






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






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






9. The male portion of a flower






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Protect the plant






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






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






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






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






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






22. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.






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






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






25. 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.






26. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






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






28. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






36. The system using two names to identify plants.






37. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






39. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.






40. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a






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






42. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






49. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.






50. Flowers with several simple pistils formed