Horticulture Quiz 10 (20 MCQs)

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1. What are the 4 main sections of horticulture?

Correct Answer: A) Floriculture, Pomology, Landscape, and Olericulture.

2. What is the leaf stalk or part that connects the leaf to the stem?

Correct Answer: C) Petiole.

3. Marigolds and other warm-season plants grow BEST during:

Correct Answer: C) Midsummer.

4. In which stage of growth do plants rest or grow very little?

Correct Answer: A) Dormant.

5. What job in horticulture prepares seedbeds for the replanting of forests

Correct Answer: A) Nursery employee.

6. A shrub that has scale-like or awl-like needles is most likely a:

Correct Answer: B) Gold mop.

7. What is division

Correct Answer: A) Separation of a plant into an individual clump making sure it has a growth point leaf and root.

8. Which SAE Record heading would be used by Hannah if she has an entrepreneurship type Supervised Agricultural Experience?

Correct Answer: D) Type of enterprise.

9. Which flowers have long stalks or spikes with florets?

Correct Answer: D) Snapdragon and gladiolus.

10. Anchoring plants, storing food and absorbing water are functions of plant:

Correct Answer: D) Roots.

11. What warm-season grass, produced by stolons and rhizomes, grows best in the eastern and coastal Piedmont areas?

Correct Answer: C) Zoysia.

12. Medicinal horticulture is NOT used for which of the following?

Correct Answer: C) Acupuncture.

13. When were girls allowed to join the FFA?

Correct Answer: B) 1969.

14. Where is the FFA National Convention held?

Correct Answer: A) Indiana.

15. The first step in the landscape project maintenance process is:

Correct Answer: B) Determine the need or objective.

16. This type of SAE involves placing students in jobs outside the regular classroom hours. They may be paid or unpaid (volunteer) work.

Correct Answer: B) Placement.

17. When flowers look too big for containers, the design principle the floral designer failed to follow is:

Correct Answer: A) Balance.

18. Which is a lightweight, inorganic mica mineral capable of absorbing a large amount of water in growing media?

Correct Answer: D) Vermiculite.

19. What part of Dawn's foundational SAE gave her a better understanding of personal finance and planning?

Correct Answer: B) Creating a personal budget.

20. What is grafting?

Correct Answer: B) Growing one part of a plant on a part of another plant.