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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. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Evapotranspiration
Surge flow
Buds
Temperature and light
2. The female portion of a flower
Pistil
Aggregate fruits
Ridge till
Aggregates
3. The male portion of a flower
Stamen
Binomial nomenclature
Fruit cracking
Lacustrine
4. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Monoecious
Fruit
Plant hardiness
Bracts
5. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Focalization
Mass bulk/flow
Decidious
Transpiration
6. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Genus
Fruits
Self - sterile
Lacustrine
7. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Biennial
Flowers
Root hairs
Pistil
8. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Stigma
Flowers
Nitrogen fixation
Lacustrine
9. 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.
Unity
Mulch - Till
Genus
Photosynthesis
10. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Insert ingredients
Leaves
Respiration
Back - siphoning
11. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Taproots
Annuals
Monocots
Stamen
12. Parent material moved by gravity
Stamen
Colluvium
Mycoplasmas
Surge flow
13. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Companion crops
No - till
Temperature and light
Stamen
14. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Monocots
Varities
Self - sterile
B horizon
15. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Aggregates
Residual
Dioecious
Balance
16. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Diffusion
E horizon
Self - sterile
A horizon
17. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Tendils
Parent material
Yield potential
Fruit cracking
18. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Fibrous roots
Ridge till
Annuals
Leaves
19. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Bracts
Cotyledons
Cambium
Decidious
20. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Monocots
Self - fruitful
Fibrous roots
Vegetable
21. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Varities
O horizon
Plant hardiness
Harrowing
22. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Stomata
Vegetable
Catface
Monocots
23. 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
E horizon
Active ingredients
Pistil
24. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Monocots
Nitrogen fixation
Yield potential
Monoecious
25. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Integrated pest management
Residual
Mulch - Till
Self - fruitful
26. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Aggregate fruits
Surge flow
Catface
Rhubarb
27. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Insert ingredients
Fruit
Nutrient management plans
Stems
28. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Nutrient management plans
Self - sterile
Diffusion
Perennials
29. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Dicots
Mycoplasmas
Cross pollinization
Respiration
30. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Stamen
Vascular system
Spines
No - till
31. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Cultivars
Sunscald
Aggregate fruits
Genus
32. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Root hairs
Back - siphoning
Surge flow
Fibrous roots
33. Determine how long is an internodes length
Nutrient management plans
Root interception
Temperature and light
Fibrous roots
34. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Stomata
Dicots
xylem
Nodes
35. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Natural enemies
Tillage
Nodes
Erosion
36. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Balance
Lacustrine
No - till
Rhubarb
37. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Cultivars
Flowers
Seed
Phloem
38. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Monocots
Hydroponics
Nitrogen fixation
Simplicity
39. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Varities
Genus
Nutrient supply
Fibrous roots
40. 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
xylem
Surge flow
Back - siphoning
41. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Buds
Fungi
Hydroponics
Tendils
42. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Residual
Root interception
E horizon
A horizon
43. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Balance
Mycoplasmas
Nodes
Fungi
44. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Sunscald
Flowers
A horizon
Harrowing
45. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Fruits
Companion crops
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Insert ingredients
46. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Erosion
Compaction
Fibrous roots
Biennial
47. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Monoecious
Cutin
Catface
Stomata
48. What do roots do for the plant
Fruits
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Stems
Biennial
49. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Stomata
Fruit
Decidious
Vascular system
50. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Hydroponics
Catface
Unity
Temperature and light