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WorksheetsLF FFA Nursery/ Landscape General Knowledge Exam
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
A disease caused by bacterial infection in trees, commonly causing death to the tips of tree branches and leaves is _______. It is very common in ornamental pears as well as pears grown for fruit, in quince, and sometimes Crabapple and pyracantha.
Fireblight
Ceader-Apple Rust
Botrytis
Canker
All the needles on a White Pine in Roberta’s landscape turned completely brown this October.
This is a natural cycle of White Pine
This is due to lack of water. She should water heavily now and fertilize in the spring
She should remove the plant. It is almost certainly dead
She should prune away the dead limbs and needles so that new growth may emerge
Heat and wind
Rain and bees
Insects and wind
Rain and wind
In an end of the year business analysis, which of these indicates the most significant loss for a business?
Loss of equity
Reduced inventory
Reduced liability
Increased labor costl
Which of these plants is generally least tolerant of severe pruning?
Pines
Forsythia
Chinese Holly
Japanese Holly
A loam is best described as a soul that has:
A ratio of 3:1 sand to organic matter
Less than 25% organic matter
A wide range of both organic and mineral matter
Approximately equal amounts of clay, silt, and sand
A producer found a limb on one of the shrubs she was growing to be strikingly different in its shape and color. It was attractive and looked like no other shrub on the market. She recognized the opportunity to asexually propagate this Plant from cuttings off the limb and to introduce an exciting new plant to the market. The limb she found is best described as a ________.
Clone
Mutation
Change replica
Change agent
Which of these is true about the insect pictured in Figure 1?
This is an adult army beetle, which is highly destructive in the landscape.
In the larval stage, this pest is especially damaging to landscape plants.
This is a harmless visitor to gardens; a larva of the monarch butterfly.
This is a highly valuable garden insect; a larva of the lady beetle.
Which of the following is most important for a landscape designer or landscaper to know when designing a residential landscape?
If the home has a septic tank and it’s location
The location of the nearest fire department
Police surveillance availability and frequency of patrols
The day of household garbage pickup
Which of these tells the most about a plant’s availability to survive summer heat in a given area?
Gardener’s Heat Tolerance Scale
Heat-Hardiness Scale
AHS Plant Heat Zones
USDA Hardiness Zone
Why should a landscape call 811?
To prevent damage to gas, electric, communications, water, and sewer lines
To report an injury at the workplace
To check the toxicity of a specific chemical
All of the above
Suppose the weather is unseasonable cold; about 30 degrees Fahrenheit with low snow. Which of the following plants in he landscape would you expect to receive the LEAST cold damage?
Wax Begonia
Pansies
Marigold
Pothos
A homeowner has a bare spot in their lawn that is shaded for for extended periods during the day. Which of the following suggestions is the best choice to plant in that area?
Annual Bluegrass
Annual Ryegrass
A ground cover such as Lilyturf
A grass that is shade-tolerant such as Bermudagrass
Suppose you are a salesperson in a garden center when a customer presents a long, confusing scenario about a landscape problem and requests your assistance. A good sales technique you should use is:
Without verbal response, go immediately and select the product that you think will solve the problem.
Restate in your own words what you heard and ask them to confirm that you’ve understood them correctly.
Call the manager over to help you interpret the problem.
Ask the customer to go to the garden center library to more accurately define the problem
While helping prepare his nursery landscape team, the teacher devised a game about landscape plants called, “Three Truths and a Lie”. Which of the following was the lie?
Some plants can develop viable seeds without sex in a process called apomoxis.
Some holly plants are males and some are females, but only female plants have berries.
Ginko biloba is one of the oldest living tree species. It dates about 250 million years!
Climbing roses are one a few plants that grow and bloom well in sun or shade.
When pollen from the flower of one plant is transferred to the stigma of a flower on another plant, _____ has occurred.
Cross- respiration
Cross-pollination
Embryonic transfer
Fertilization
Division is a commonly used method of propagation for some plants. Which of these plants would be MOST DIFFICULT to propagate by division?
Snapdragon
Hosta
Lilyturf
Daylily
Which of these is usually the factor contributing most to problems with pesticide drift?
Air temperature
Rainfall
Wind
Soul temperature
When producing plants from seed, which of these is usually the most important for seed germination?
Temperature of the soil
pH of the irrigation water
Fertilizer type applied
Fertility of the germination mix
What can be said about the differences in climates between USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 5 and 6?
The average annual minimum winter temperature in Zone6 is about 10 degrees F higher than Zone 5.
Plants that survive, but are marginal in Zone 5, would be less likely to survive in Zone 6.
The average annual minimum summer temperature in Zone 5, is about 10 degrees F higher than Zone 6.
All of the above
Which of these is NOT a step recommended in pruning trees?
Remove dead limbs
Remove crossing branches
Cut limb collars flush with the trunk
Remove suckers
To help decrease the chance of disease development in nursery crops, overhead irrigation should be done _____ when practical.
Late in the day, just before sundown
At night, 9 pm to 3 am
In the morning
during mid- day
Generally, meat scraps, bones, grease, and dairy products should not be added to a compost pile because these materials:
Acidify the soil
Increase the alkalinity to an undesirable level
Increase the number of earth worms
Attract rats and mice
Which of these would be easiest to propagate by simple or serpentine layering?
White Fir
Forsythia
White Pine
Nyssa sylvactica
It is well known in the horticulture that diverse types of soils hold various amounts of water, with sandy soil is holding the least in clay soils holding the most water. Which factor explains why clay soils hold more water than sandy soils, disregarding organic matter?
The alkalinity of clay soils accounts for most of its high water holding capacity
The acidic nature of clay soils accounts for its high water holding capacity
The surface area of sandy soils is much higher than the same volume of clay soils
The surface area of clay soils is greater than the same volume of sandy soils
Waylon had $4.32 per pot invested in his crop of 1500 junipers. A landscape company offered him $6.50 per pot, but he rejected their offer in soon so the entire cop at his asking price of $7.25 per pot what was his net profit on the crop?
$10,875
$9,750
$4,395
$1125
Heather needs to remove a piece of wire that has wrapped around her rotary mower blade. One thing that she should do as a safety measure is:
Tilt of the mower back at 30 to 50 degrees
Remove the spark plug wire
Readjust the cutting height
Remove the air filter
A good rule of thumb for mowing grass is to:
Secure the emergency cut off bar with wire on string
Remove no more than 1/3 of the leaf blade at any one time
Cut around the trees in the lawn area in a clockwise manner when practical
Use a vertical mower on slopes over 15 petunia
Which of these is an LD-50 reading that would be most toxic to humans?
43
19
W – 93
3000
The principles of xeriscapeing would be best exemplified by homeowner who:
Install the sprinkler system that operates on a timer
Replaces non-native ornamentals with native plants that do not require irrigation
Lowers the lawn mower blade to reduce the height of the turf
Adjust the pH of the soil to a desirable level for turf being grown
A gasoline and oil mix add a ratio in the range of 20:1 to 50:1 is most likely intended for a:
Two cycle engine
Three cycle engine
Four cycle engine
Eight cylinder tractor
Which of these helps keep a retaining wall from collapsing from the force of the soil behind the wall?
Deadman
Wall bolts
Wall bolts and lag screws
The gravel bed the wall is set up on
A homeowner wanted Bermudagrass established in her yard but was concerned about the cost. The landscaper suggested a process where the pieces of Bermuda sod are chopped into sections of stems containing one or more nodes. These pieces are distributed over the site and covered lightly by disking and rolling. What method of turf establishment does this describe?
Sodding
Stolonizing
Cultipacking
Rasterizing
The purpose of the edging trench cut between the Bermuda grass in the pine straw mulch in figure 3, is to help:
Preevent stolons and rhizomes from invading the mulch bed
Direct water onto the sidewalk for adequate drainage
Direct water into the mulch bed for irrigation purposes
Anchor the pine straw during heavy rains and wind
Which of these is NOT a benefit of mulched area around establish landscape trees?
Mulch around trees protects the base of the tree from mowers
Much provides a neat appearance when properly maintained
Mulch around trees provides a barrier to insects and disease
Mulch around trees for increases the overall speed of mowing
One of the major problems in maintaining interior plantscapes is:
The increased nutrient requirements of indoor plants.
The substantial reduction in the quality and intensity of light
The quality and quantity of the irrigation water required
The lack of natural breezes bring warmth to the plant
The measure of the soil’s ability to hold positively charged ions is a very important soil property that influences the soil structure, nutrient availability, soil pH, and the soil’s reaction to fertilizer applications. This is referred to as:
Cation exchange capability
PH upgrade capacity
Soil amelioration
I am on degeneration and supplementation
What is wrong with the treeplanting diagram shown in figure 2?
This whole is not deep enough
The 3 inch mulch cover is too thick
The whole is dug too wide
None of the above
Most of the feeding roots of established trees and landscape are:
In the top 12 inches of soil
Between 12 and 30 inches deep
Between 30 and 50 inches deep
Over 50 inches deep
Which is the following would make the best general purpose Soil makes for a potted nursery crop?
30% Peat, 70% sand
70% bark, 20% peat moss, 10% sand
50% vermiculite, 10% sand, 40% topsoil
70% topsoil, 30% sand
This type of insurance provides protection to the business if you, your employees, your products, or your services cause bodily injury or property damage to a third-party.
Commercial auto insurance
Liability insurance
Workers compensation insurance
Property insurance
This type of insurance provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees who are injured on the job.
Commercial auto insurance
Liability insurance
Workers compensation insurance
Property insurance
A homeowner will soon establish a new lawn by seeding at his home. However, the slope is about 4% and he is worried about erosion prior to germination of his grass seed. A good practice in this situation might be to plant ________ along with his lawn seed. This plant germinate quickly and will hold the soil in place until the turf grass seeds germinate and become established.
Bermudagrass
Bentgrass
Annual ryegrass
Annual bluegrass
Which plant would not likely need staking when planted in the landscape?
White pine, 4 - 5’, container grown
Sweet gum, 8 - 10’, B & B
Red Maple, 8 -10’, B&B
Japanese holly, 2 gallon, container grown
How often is agricultural lime applied to the lawn?
Once per year
When a soil test indicate it is needed
Anytime the phosphorus levels are in the high to very high range
Each time the turf is aerated; generally, every 1 to 2 years
Battery operated landscape equipment such as string trimmers and hedge trimmers have been much improved in recent years. These powerful and convenient tools are used by both homeowners and professionals. Battery powered tools have become popular because they:
Are quiet
Are lightweight
Do not admit exhaust fumes
All the above
If you find an ootheca (egg mass) of a praying mantis in your landscape, you should:
Spray the plant with an oil based insecticide
Wait until the eggs hatch and then spray with insecticide
Do not disturb the egg mass
Prune off plant parts with the egg mass and burn them
This resource serves as a standard for the measurement of nursery stock. These standards provide buyers and sellers common terminology technology, and standards in plant size (caliper, height, branching height) in order to facilitate transactions involving nursery crops.
United Standard for Landscape Materials
American Standard for Nursery Stock
United Standard for Landscape Materials
American United Measurement Standards
A rule of thumb in landscaping is that the walkway leading to the front door of the residence should generally accommodate two adults walking side-by-side, which is at minimum about _____ feet wide.
2
3
4
7
Kaitlyn had to sharpen her rotary lawnmower blade, including removing a large nick in one end after hitting a piece of metal in the lawn. Her Ag teacher reminded her to ______ the blade before reinstalling it or the mower would probably vibrate and possibly cause damage to the engine.
Lubricate
Temper
Balance
Differentiate
