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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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  • 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. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Protect the plant






6. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified






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






17. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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






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






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






21. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied






22. A cluster or several flowers






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






24. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.






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. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.






27. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






28. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






40. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source






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






42. Determine how long is an internodes length






43. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






44. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem






45. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






46. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant






47. Parent material moved by gravity






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






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






50. Formation of buds taking place.