Nursery Landscape Knowledge - 2019 - Correct

Which is a document that contains a concise summary of a person’s education, skills, work experience, and other job qualifications?

• Cover letter

• Job description

• References

• Resume

This organization was established in 1970 by the US Congress to ensure safe and healthy work places?

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• National Institute for Health

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration

• US Dept. of Labor

The three basic steps to selling nursery landscape plants are creating an interest, convincing the customer, and:

• Cleaning the sales counter

• Closing the sale

• Coming to work

• Counting the money

Before being transplanted, seedlings should:

• Be disbudded

• Be 6 inches tall

• Have flowers

• Have true leaves

Which growing media has the least aeration?

• Gravel

• Perlite

• Soil

• Vermiculite

Bedding plant seedlings should be held by the leaves when being transplanted to:

• Avoid injury to stems.

• Prevent damage to flower petals.

• Increase stem rot.

• Pull off dead leaves.

The type of pruning used to cut old branches back to the ground is:

• Heading back.

• Renewal.

• Root.

• Thinning.

What should be the shape of the bottom of a hole used to plant a bare-root tree?

• Dome

• Flat

• Pointed

• Square

The fact that a single cell has all of an organism’s genetic information and has the ability to differentiate into any type of cell is known as:

• cryopreservation

• in vitro

• somaclonal variation

• totipotency

Newly planted trees should be staked to:

• Hold plant straight.

• Hold water.

• Prevent soil erosion.

• Provide mulch.