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Plant Nutrition

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following crops is a legume?

a)

Corn

b)

Wheat

c)

Soybean

d)

Sugar beet

2.

Legumes have which of the following characteristics?

a)

Produce seeds in pods.

b)

Fix nitrogen in association with rhizobia.

c)

Include plants like alfalfa and clover.

d)

Include plants like corn and oats.

3.

The numbers 10-10-10 in a fertilizer analysis refer to which three nutrients?

a)

Phosphorus

b)

Sulfur

c)

Nitrogen

d)

Potassium

4.

Which of the following corn plants shows a nitrogen deficiency?

a)
b)
c)
d)
5.

Which picture shows a phosphorus deficiency in corn?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which picture shows a potassium deficiency in corn?

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

Which of the following corn plants shows a sulfur deficiency?

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

Plant growth is restricted by the nutrient in shortest supply, aka ___________.

a)

nitrogen

b)

the most limiting nutrient

c)

the starving nutrient

d)

water

9.

Legumes provide a nitrogen credit to crops grown in the same field the following season.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The industrial process of fixing nitrogen is called:

a)

The German Process

b)

The Rhizobia Machine

c)

The Ford-Smith Procedure

d)

The Haber-Bosch Process

11.

Nitrogen is fixed from the atmosphere by which of the following?

a)

The Haber-Bosch Process

b)

Rhizobia bacteria

c)

Lightning

d)

All of the above.

12.

Which two nutrients are the main causes of algae blooms?

a)

Sulfur

b)

Nitrogen

c)

Potassium

d)

Phosphorus

13.

Which of the following is a micronutrient?

a)

Nitrogen

b)

Calcium

c)

Copper

d)

Sulfur

14.

Which of the following is true about nitrogen?

a)

It's mobile in the plant.

b)

Deficiency symptoms start on the lower leaves.

c)

It's generally the nutrient needed in the greatest quantities.

d)

All of the above.

15.

pH can affect nutrient availability.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Plants require the same levels of nutrients no matter the life stage.

a)

True

b)

False