PLANT GROWTH MEDIA TERMS QUIZ

AIR CIRCULATION INTO SOIL.

• AERATION

• AIR INDUCTION

• OXYGENATION

• CIRCULATION

IN THE TERM COCONUT COIR, COIR IS PRONOUNCED LIKE ______________.

• CORE

• CHOIR

______________________ MANURE SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN A COMPOST PILE.

• PET (DOG AND CAT)

• LIVESTOCK

THIS TYPE OF PLANTING CAN COVER BARE SOIL WHEN A CROP IS NOT ACTIVELY GROWING IN AN AREA.

• COVER CROP

• PLASTICULTURE

• CROPICULTURE

• COMPOST CROP

A LAYER OF SOIL TYPICALLY DIFFERENTIATED BY ITS COLOR

• PROFILE

• HORIZON

• CROSS SECTION

• LINEAR LINE EQUIVALENT GRADIENT NARRATIVE LAYER

A SOIL WITH A MIXTURE OF SAND, SILT AND CLAY.

• CLAY

• SAND

• SILT

• LOAM

FROM DEAD PLANTS & ANIMALS.

• ORGANIC MATTER

• PERLITE

• LOAMY SOIL

• VERMICULITE

USED TO HELP WITH DRAINAGE IN POTTING SOILS.

• LOAM

• PERLITE

• COMPOST

• VERMICULITE

SOILLESS GROWING MEDIA ARE STERILE.

• TRUE

• FALSE

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD NOT BE A COMPONENT OF A SOILLESS MEDIA.

• PEAT MOSS

• WOOD CHIPS

• PERLITE

• TOPSOIL