Gardening Vocabulary Lesson: 24 Words

Gardening Vocabulary

organic material such as wood chips, grass, compost, or leaves that is spread at the base of a plant to control weeks and hold moisture in the soil.

​​Mulch (n)

​a plant that lives for two or more years.

Perennial (n)

Multiple Choice

Perennial is a plant that lives for two or more years.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Mulch is organic material such as...

• wood chips, grass, compost or leaves

• plastic, waste and styrofoam

To cut off spent flowers from a plant to encourage reblooming.

Deadhead (v)

​A plant that needs less than two hours of sun per day.

Deep Shade (n)

​To sow seeds directly into their permanent growing space.

Direct Sow (n)

a condition of plants grown without sufficient light, which can lead to weak stems, small leaves and leaves that are pale yellow instead of green.

Etiolation (n)

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Multiple Choice

​A plant that needs less than two hours of sun per day is a ___________ plant.

• Strong sun

• Super grower

• Nighttime

• Deep shade

Multiple Choice

Direct sow is when you do not sow seeds directly into their permanent growing space.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Etiolation is a condition of plants gown without sufficient light, which can lead to...

• strong stems, big leaves and leaves that are bright green.

• weak stems, small leaves and leaves that are pale yellow instead of green.

• an urgent need to eat vegetables.

• low maintenance, low water gardening.

Soil, compost or fertilizer with a pH between 0 and 7.0.

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Acidic (adj.)

Multiple Choice

When soil is acidic, it has a PH...

• Over 7

• Over 14

• between 7 and 14

• between 0 and 7.0

Soil, compost or fertilizer with a pH between 7.0 and 14.

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Alkaline (adj.)

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A plant that completes its life cycle in one year or less, requiring that the plant be sown again each year.

Biennial (n)

A yellowing of the leaves caused by the lack of chlorophyll or proper nutrients, or because of disease.

Chlorosis (n)

Multiple Choice

When a plant is biennial, it completes its life cycle

• in three years

• in two years

• in one year or less

• in four years

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Organic matter from decomposed material from plants. Compost is added to garden beds or pots to refresh nutrients in soil.

Compost (n)

A variety of plant that has been selectively bred specifically for a certain desirable feature, such as color.

​​Cultivar (n)

A plant that is propogated by cutting a piece of leaf, stem or root from a parent plant and putting the cut piece into growing medium, thereby creating a new plant.

Cutting (n)

Multiple Choice

Cultivar is a variety of plant that has been selectively bred specifically for a certain desirable feature, such as color.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Compost is not organic matter from decomposed material from plants. Compost is added to garden beds or pots to refresh nutrients in the soil.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

____________ is a variety of plant that is propagated by cutting a piece of leaf, stem or root from a parent plant and putting the cut piece into growing medium, thereby creating a new plant.

• Razor sharp

• Cutting

• Scissors

• Break

Any animal, such as bird or insect, that carries pollen among flowers.

Pollinator (n)

When a plant drops viable seeds into the ground around it, perpetuating the plant.

Self-Sow (v)

To move a plant to another growing location.

Transplant (v)

A new plant that grows from being self-sown or sown by an animal.

Volunteer (n)

Multiple Select

What are the best examples of volunteers?

(May choose more than one answer)

• Airplanes, cars and motocycles

• mechanics, nurses, and doctors

• pigs, sheep, cows, birds and goats.

• Milkweed, dandelions and cottonwood trees.

Multiple Choice

Self Sow is when a plant drops NON viable seeds into the ground around it so nothing grows.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A ______ is a good example of a pollinator

• butterfly

• leaf

• my friend, George

• happiness

Drag and Drop

Look carefully at what is happening in this photo. Choose the word that most closely fits the description.​

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Transplanting

Transsectionality

Transmission

Transmutation

​when a seed begins to grow.

GERMINATE (v)

Genetically Modified Organism. A GMO variety of a plant is usually one that has been genetically manipulated in a laboratory.

GMO (n)

Multiple Choice

____________ is when a seed begins to grow.

• Sensible

• Russion

• Fecund

• Germinate

Multiple Choice

GMO means

• Gene Mike and Oscar

• Genetic Meaningful Oregano

• Genetically Modified Organism

A plant's ability to withstand cold temperatures.

Hardiness (n)

​A variety that is at least fifty years old.

Heirloom (adj)

​The material in which a plant is grown.

MEDIUM (n)

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Multiple Choice

A plant's hardiness indicates its ability to...

• withstand the wind

• withstand cold temperatures.

• withstand too much water

• be happy in all circumstances

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to create a low-maintenance, low-water garden landscape based on succulents and/or other native plants and small areas or no areas of grass.

​Xeriscape (v)

Multiple Choice

A variety of plant that is at least fifty years old is known as an Heirloom.

• True

• False

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Video Response

Record a poem,short story or Public Service Announcement about the benefits of gardening (see this example), please USE AS MANY OF THESE GARDENING VOCABULARY WORDS as possible for maximum points! For example: Xeriscape, heirloom, deadhead, hardiness, GMO, germinate, self sow, compost, cultivar, cutting, etiolation and so on

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