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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style






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






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






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






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






6. A cluster or several flowers






7. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






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






9. The male portion of a flower






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






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






12. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






14. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






16. 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.






17. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






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






19. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






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






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






22. Have a two - year growth cycle






23. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






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






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






26. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






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






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






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






30. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






31. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






32. Leaf rust is a form of






33. Protect the plant






34. Are those chemicals that control a target pest






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






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






37. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.






38. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans






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






40. Is an equality in something visually attractive






41. The female portion of a flower






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






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






44. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






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






46. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.






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






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






49. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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