Test 1

Question 1

agronomy

Answer 1

crops produced on a large scale; feed, fuel, and fiber crops

Question 2

horticulture

Answer 2

crops produced on multiple scales; mainly, fruit, vegetable, and ornamental crops

Question 3

forage/turf

Answer 3

agronomic crops beyond grains produced mainly for herbage livestock feed; turf crops are usually low growing, stolons or rhizomes, dense, uniform plant/crop stands

Question 4

food crops

Answer 4

include produce and processed grain crops mainly for human consumption

Question 5

produce crops examples

Answer 5

sweet corn, green beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes

Question 6

grain crops examples

Answer 6

corn, soybean, wheat, and sorghum

Question 7

feed crops

Answer 7

usually for livestock feed by grazing or introduced as hay or silage

Question 8

hay

Answer 8

cut while green, dried in the field and fed to livestock later (ex. alfalfa, clover, orchardgrass, timothy)

Question 9

silage

Answer 9

harvested grain and forage crops while green, then stored to control fermentation to ultimately produce plant sugars (ex. corn, sorghum, oats)

Question 10

fiber crops

Answer 10

produce materials that can be manufactured to produce items like cloth and rope (ex. cotton, hemp, and coconut)

Question 11

fuel crops

Answer 11

energy producing crops that can be processed into biofuels and biodiesel

Question 12

biofuel

Answer 12

usually plant and sugar based and fuel is produced from the fermentation of these sugars

Question 13

cellulosic biofuels

Answer 13

fuels produced from plant materials high in cellulose that can be fermented into ethanol (ex. corn, sorghum, and wheat)

Question 14

biodiesel

Answer 14

oil produced mainly from vegetable and grain crops (ex. soybean, sunflower, cotton seed)

Question 15

pulses

Answer 15

legume crops that are edible with seeds that contain oil and are high in protein (ex. soybeans, green beans, field peas, peanuts)

Question 16

roots and tubers

Answer 16

store large amounts of energy in the tubers and roots (ex. potatoes, artichokes, cassava)

Question 17

companion crops

Answer 17

crops grown together for a particular purpose (ex. oats+alfalfa, rye+radish, cover crop mixes)

Question 18

medicinal crops

Answer 18

grown for medicinal benefits

Question 19

toxic crops and plants

Answer 19

produce harmful or deadly compounds and were historically used as weapons during war

Question 20

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 20

developed the Binomial System of Nomenclature

Question 21

complete scientific name

Answer 21

scientific name and initial of the person who named the species

Question 22

plant taxonomy (specific to broad)

Answer 22

species, genus, family, order, class, division, plant kingdom

Question 23

plant anatomy

Answer 23

the study of the internal make-up of plants

Question 24

plant morphology

Answer 24

overall form and structure of plants and crops

Question 25

monocots

Answer 25

one cotyledon, linear leaves, parallel venation, fibrous roots; leaf sheath, blade, and collar (ex. corn, wheat, and rice)

Question 26

dicots

Answer 26

two cotyledons, simple or compound leaves, netted venation, taproot (ex. soybean, cotton, alfalfa)

Question 27

plant cells

Answer 27

the basic unit of all plants that creates living plants through multiple processes in a membrane

Question 28

three types of plant tissues

Answer 28

ground, dermal, and vascular

Question 29

ground tissue system

Answer 29

contains chlorophyll and energy forms, strengthens growing stems, and a secondary wall between main wall and membrane

Question 30

dermal tissue system

Answer 30

skin of the plant

Question 31

vascular tissue system

Answer 31

transports water and nutrients inside the plant

Question 32

roots

Answer 32

storage unit, supports growth and development of plants, absorbs water and nutrients

Question 33

types of roots

Answer 33

taproots, fibrous roots, adventitious roots

Question 34

crops with taproots

Answer 34

soybeans, alfalfa, and cotton

Question 35

crops with fibrous roots

Answer 35

corn, wheat, and rice

Question 36

crops with adventitious roots

Answer 36

turf crops (crabgrass, zoysia, bermudagrass)

Question 37

stem

Answer 37

aboveground structure for plants; main passageway for water and nutrients

Question 38

tillers

Answer 38

additional stems from the crown part of the plant and reproductive parts

Question 39

rhizomes

Answer 39

promote reproduction of underground system (ex. strawberries)

Question 40

leaves

Answer 40

capture light to produce energy

Question 41

stomata

Answer 41

two guard cells on leaves that open and close to allow water and nutrients to enter leaves

Question 42

flowers

Answer 42

where reproduction occurs

Question 43

four main parts of a flower

Answer 43

stamen (male), pistil (female), petal (surrounds the reproductive parts of the flower), sepal (protects the petals until the flowers open completely)

Question 44

flower classes

Answer 44

complete, incomplete, perfect, imperfect

Question 45

complete

Answer 45

all male and female parts

Question 46

incomplete

Answer 46

missing at least one part

Question 47

perfect

Answer 47

have a stamen and pistil

Question 48

imperfect

Answer 48

missing male or female parts

Question 49

fruits

Answer 49

the product of fertilization occurring in the flower of a plant (can be fleshy or dried)

Question 50

seeds

Answer 50

the matured ovules within the fruit inside of the ovary that contains an embryo and genetic material to produce new plants