Floriculture Quiz 2 (20 MCQs)

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1. You have a 90 foot long greenhouse with an end-wall area of 240 square feet. You have decided to fumigate utilizing Methiocarb PT 1700 aerosol canisters. If each canister will treat a maximum if 2, 500 cubic feet, how many canisters are required for a single treatment?
2. Soil texture describes the relative proportion of different grain sizes of mineral particles in a soil. Particles are grouped according to their size into what are called soil separates.
3. A Hogarth Curve floral design is created by
4. Commercial growers
5. Which color scheme or color harmony includes hues that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel?
6. In writing a resume, list jobs that you have held, awards, and education
7. Monocot plants, such as grasses, are good examples of ..... root systems.
8. In a horticulture business, the product you choose to produce and retail should be at what price above the total production and marketing costs (all fixed and variable costs) to make it feasible to produce and sell?
9. Your FFA Chapter has partnered up with the school cafeteria to grow lettuce to be used on the school salad bar. You are growing 3 different varieties of lettuce in 3 different raised beds using drip irrigation. The raised beds are 15 feet long and are 4 feet wide allowing you to run two rows of lettuce with irrigation per bed. You have spaced the lettuce 12 inches apart giving you enough room to have 14 heads of lettuce per row with a drip emitter on each head of lettuce. Each drip emitter puts out 0.5 gallon of water per hour. The irrigation system is set to run 4 days a week for 30 minutes each day on each bed. How much water are you using in a week to grow the lettuce?
10. A common flaw in establishing a focal area is to:
11. Nursery Workers
12. Wreaths, garlands, loose flowers and petals were the floral design styles used during which historical floral period?
13. Suppose a 5-inch poinsettia crop is spaced 12 inches by 12 inches on the benches of a greenhouse. If the fixed costs for this greenhouse operation are $ 0.20 per square foot week and the crop is in the greenhouse for 15 weeks, what is the total fixed costs to be assigned to each 5-inch poinsettia pot?
14. Acid is injected water to neutralize the .....
15. What color adaptation is created by adding gray to a pure hue?
16. Soil pH is based on the concentration of ..... ions in the soil.
17. Your agriculture teacher has explained the benefit of using multiple chemicals with differnet MOAs to tackle though greenhouse pests. You currently have scale on your greenhouse crop and your teacher is looking for two different pesticides that treat the scale in all life stages. Your teacher has also requested that both of these pesticides can be sprayed after school once the students leave (5:00pm) but would also allow students to enetr the greeenhouse the next day when they arrive to school (7:00am). Which two chemicals would you recommend the school purchase.
18. Haley wants to operate a plant rental business for special events as her SAE. To begin her business she has determined that she will have the following expenses:10 Peace Lilies ..... $ 15 each15 Ficus ..... $ 10 each10 Ferns ..... $ 12 each12 Nephytis ..... $ 8 each3 cases (12 cans/case) Leaf Shine ..... $ 39 per caseIf Haley avarages 20 plants per month rental with all plants rented at the same price, how much would that rental price need to be per plant to cover all expenses for the year in addition to making $ 50 profit per month?
19. The production and distribution of flowers.
20. A ..... bouquet is a round bouquet that is based on the English nosegay of the Georgian and Victorian eras.