The Modern World Terms

Question 1

A plot of land where trees or shrubs are grown for scientific or educational study either individually or groupings

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Arboretum

Question 2

Pastoral, bucolic, rural, rustic; simple or innocent; often used in reference to the English school of landscape designers of the 18th century and the American movement of the 19th century

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Arcadian

Question 3

An exterior wall around an open area or enclosed courtyard of a fortified castle during the middle ages

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Bailey

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A rectangular or cylindrical vertical post, column, or pilaster which supports a handrail or coping

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Baluster

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A term applied to a wall with a slight inward slope to its face

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Batter

Question 6

As part of a fortress or fortified town wall; a parapet wall with continuous series of indentions or openings between

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Battlement

Question 7

The higher sections of the parapet wall or battlement

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Merlons

Question 8

The openings of a parapet wall that provided shooting positions for defenders

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Crenels

Question 9

A horizontal mound of earth; an embankment

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Berm

Question 10

In highway or landscape construction, this term is applied to the ridge of earth at the top of a slope to divert the flow of surface runoff water and prevent erosion of the slope

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Berm

Question 11

The appropriation, or taking advantage, of desirable views or scenery that are visible from one’s own property but, are in fact, outside one’s ownership

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Borrowed Scenery

Question 12

A leafy shelter; an arbor

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Bower

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A Victorian, 19th-century style popular in England and borrowed elsewhere with bedding plants arranged in geometric patterns within a grass lawn; typically, composed of annual plants, which were alternated inti the scheme based in their time of bloom

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Carpet Bedding

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The normal maximum number of organisms that an area can support; generally expressed in terms of population per acre or per square mile for larger organisms; per square foot or per square cubic foot for microorganisms and soil organisms; dependent on the least abundant limiting factor of the environment

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Carrying Capacity

Question 15

A structure that is built like a castle or fortress with turrets and battlements

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Castellated

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A small underground reservoir or pump in an engineered storm drainage system where surface water enters the underground portions of the system either by gravity or pumping

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Catch Basin

Question 17

The upper window level in a building, rising above adjacent roofs of the other parts, such as the aisles in a church

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Clerestory

Question 18

An open place for public assembly in an urban area

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Common (Agora, Green/Square, Piazza, Plaza)

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The practice of selecting from various sources, usually in order to form a new system or style of design; combining historical styles of various types

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Eclecticism

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A self-sustaining community of organisms plus their inorganic environment; must have an adequate resource of chemical nutrients, energy, and a balanced population of organisms

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Ecosystem

Question 21

Organisms tied together in interlocking food chains (4 Types)

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Energy Accumulators (Chlorophyll Plants)
Primary Consumers (Fungi, Microorganisms, Herbivores)
Second-order Consumers (Carnivorous Predators, Parasites, Scavengers)
Decomposers (Bacteria, Fungi, etc.)

Question 22

The science that deals with the interrelationships between organisms and their environment; study of the home

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Ecology

Question 23

Greek word where Ecology came from

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Oikos (house)

Question 24

In the English Romantic landscape garden, a feature in the scene that is intended to attract the attention of the viewer; a focal element

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Eye-catcher

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A structure built solely for decorative effect in the landscape garden of the 18th century

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Folly

Question 26

Having a garden-like qualities; being like a designed garden

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Gardenesque

Question 27

Italian for “English garden,” particularly those developed in the naturalistic landscape garden style as popularized by the English in the 18th century

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Giardino ingles

Question 28

Referring to rural, especially to agricultural land, lifestyle, economy, etc.

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Agrarian