Horticulture Final Exam Review Game #2

Monocot flowers have flower parts in multiples of:

• 5's

• 7's

• 4's

• 3's

Cuttings are considered to be "hardened off" when they have successfully:

• grown more than 1"

• rooted

• turned green

• flowered

A corm is a specialized:

• root

• stem

• leaf

• plant

What are the four components of rhythm?

• repetition, radiation, progression, unity

• harmony, scale, radiation, transition

• progression, transition, scale, repetition

• repetition, progression, radiation, transition

A rhizome is an underground:

• leaf

• root

• stem

• tuber

Poinsettias are propagated asexually using what?

• seeds

• leaf cuttings

• stem cuttings

• root cuttings

Poinsettias produce leaves that change color from green to red (or white, pink, etc). These specialized leaves are known as what:

• branches

• bracts

• canes

• sepals

Often when we pot plants, we drench the soil with a _____ to help prevent diseases such as root rot, caused by fungal infections in plant or soil material.

• insecticide

• fungicide

• insect buffer

• herbicide

The internode distance tells us what?

• how tall a plant is

• how much the plant grew in a season

• how much water the plant needs

• how thick the roots are

What controls the opening and closing of the stomata?

• the change of water pressure in the guard cells

• the amount of food in the spongy mesophyll layer

• the change in air pressure within the guard cells

• the thickness of the epidermis layer