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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. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Surge flow
Tendils
Buds
Parent material
2. The male portion of a flower
Binomial nomenclature
Vascular system
Stamen
Perennials
3. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Sunscald
Flowers
B horizon
Fruit
4. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Parent material
Mycoplasmas
Ethylene
Sunscald
5. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
Multiple fruits.
Compaction
Transition
6. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
No - till
Stems
Residual
Natural enemies
7. Parent material moved by gravity
Colluvium
Leaves
Specific epithet
Unity
8. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Stomata
Mass bulk/flow
Multiple fruits.
Harrowing
9. Protect the plant
Self - sterile
A horizon
Spines
Mulch - Till
10. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Plant hardiness
xylem
Compaction
Cuticle
11. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Nutrient supply
Fruits
Fruit
No - till
12. Formation of buds taking place.
Nodes
Compaction
Binomial nomenclature
xylem
13. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Hydroponics
Transition
No - till
Proportion
14. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Perennials
Cross pollinization
Transpiration
Ridge till
15. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Nutrient management plans
Cotyledons
Aggregates
Repetition
16. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Eolian
Insert ingredients
Genus
Ethylene
17. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Respiration
Lacustrine
B horizon
Evapotranspiration
18. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Biennial
Phloem
xylem
19. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Monoecious
Biennial
Varities
Integrated pest management
20. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Sunscald
Aggregate fruits
Constructed wetlands
Stomata
21. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Vegetable
Cotyledons
Rhythm
Catface
22. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Nodes
Seed
Active ingredients
Tillage
23. Parent material that the wind transports
Companion crops
Sunscald
Insert ingredients
Eolian
24. The ___ horizon tops the profile and contains mostly organic matter - with a decomposed vegetation structure that enriches the soil with nutrients and helps it retain moisture.
Stamen
Parent material
Loess
O horizon
25. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Fruits
Taproots
Repetition
Aggregates
26. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Aggregates
Focalization
Harrowing
Back - siphoning
27. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Cotyledons
Eolian
Cultivars
Root interception
28. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Compaction
Self - sterile
Mass bulk/flow
Fruit cracking
29. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Self - sterile
Stems
Lacustrine
Monoecious
30. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Proportion
Root hairs
Nutrient management plans
Spines
31. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
No - till
Back - siphoning
Aggregates
Integrated pest management
32. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Back - siphoning
Integrated pest management
Ridge till
Decidious
33. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Erosion
Sunscald
Vascular system
Diffusion
34. Support stems
Loess
Tendils
Colluvium
Constructed wetlands
35. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Eolian
Aggregate fruits
Specific epithet
Buds
36. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Parent material
E horizon
Stigma
Mass bulk/flow
37. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Simplicity
Photosynthesis
Fruit cracking
Fruits
38. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Yield potential
Parent material
Specific epithet
A horizon
39. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Root interception
Tillage
Insert ingredients
Integrated pest management
40. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Stomata
Harrowing
Colluvium
Active ingredients
41. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Parent material
Stomata
Evapotranspiration
Fruit cracking
42. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Flowers
Simplicity
Taproots
Aggregates
43. A cluster or several flowers
Binomial nomenclature
Multiple fruits.
Simplicity
Flowers
44. 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
Cotyledons
Nodes
Nitrogen fixation
45. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Surge flow
Perennials
Evapotranspiration
Stems
46. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Anther
Ethylene
Cross pollinization
Nitrogen fixation
47. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Cultivars
Catface
Dioecious
Multiple fruits.
48. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Annuals
Cotyledons
B horizon
Sunscald
49. The only vegetable used as a fruit
No - till
Rhubarb
Harrowing
Perennials
50. 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
Plant hardiness
E horizon
Self - sterile