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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Specific epithet
E horizon
Ridge till
Diffusion
2. Leaf rust is a form of
Ridge till
Integrated pest management
Flowers
Fungi
3. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Fruit cracking
Cultivars
No - till
Sunscald
4. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Transition
Cultivars
Companion crops
Compaction
5. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Dicots
Evergreen
Lacustrine
Aggregates
6. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Plant hardiness
Sunscald
Proportion
Mulch - Till
7. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Pistil
Leaves
Cambium
Rhubarb
8. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Cutin
Perennials
Compaction
Cuticle
9. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Cultivars
Mulch - Till
Stamen
Vegetable
10. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
xylem
Anther
Companion crops
11. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Photosynthesis
Multiple fruits.
Diffusion
Dioecious
12. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
B horizon
Bracts
Rhubarb
Self - fruitful
13. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Monoecious
Aggregate fruits
Stems
Fruits
14. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Integrated pest management
Active ingredients
Natural enemies
15. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Yield potential
Perennials
Tendils
Cross pollinization
16. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Residual
Genus
Stamen
A horizon
17. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Sunscald
Fibrous roots
O horizon
Eolian
18. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Self - fruitful
Residual
Cuticle
Root hairs
19. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Nutrient management plans
Mass bulk/flow
Residual
Nitrogen fixation
20. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Nutrient supply
Evapotranspiration
Nodes
Dicots
21. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Annuals
Eolian
Spines
Simplicity
22. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Parent material
Harrowing
Decidious
Rhubarb
23. Formation of buds taking place.
Nodes
Evergreen
Nitrogen fixation
Fruit cracking
24. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Anther
Blossom - end rot
Respiration
Companion crops
25. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Fibrous roots
Nutrient management plans
Erosion
Yield potential
26. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Buds
Respiration
Biennial
27. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Harrowing
Ethylene
Biennial
Dicots
28. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Aggregate fruits
Fruit
Mulch - Till
Cambium
29. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Cutin
Root interception
Rhubarb
Evergreen
30. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Lacustrine
Mulch - Till
Plant hardiness
Spines
31. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Constructed wetlands
Cambium
Evergreen
Natural enemies
32. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Plant hardiness
Flowers
Repetition
Stamen
33. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Nutrient supply
B horizon
Parent material
Cultivars
34. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Binomial nomenclature
Phloem
Taproots
Cultivars
35. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Rhythm
Tillage
Stigma
Aggregates
36. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Genus
xylem
Loess
Stomata
37. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Rhythm
O horizon
Root hairs
Seed
38. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Plant hardiness
Nodes
Transition
Surge flow
39. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Varities
Cross pollinization
Dioecious
Decidious
40. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Rhythm
E horizon
Fungi
Hydroponics
41. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Constructed wetlands
Vegetable
Surge flow
No - till
42. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Cambium
Leaves
No - till
Self - fruitful
43. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Catface
Leaves
Integrated pest management
Harrowing
44. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Fumigant
Balance
Colluvium
Surge flow
45. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Decidious
Root hairs
Colluvium
Yield potential
46. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Aggregates
Stomata
Cotyledons
Residual
47. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Pistil
Mass bulk/flow
Rhythm
Monoecious
48. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Temperature and light
Root interception
Nutrient management plans
Stigma
49. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Constructed wetlands
Rhythm
Ridge till
Taproots
50. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Cross pollinization
Seed
Leaves
Simplicity