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WorksheetsTexas FFA floriculture CDE test 1-50
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
One of the earliest cultures to use flowers were the Egyptians they valued ____ and ______.
Simplicity with variation
Majestic and lavish
Simplicity and repetition
Ornate with gothic tone
______ play a powerful role in advertising floral shops and in most locations leads all other media in sales return for dollar spent.
Telephone sales
Newspapers
Window Displays
Radio spots
The following is not a characteristic of an insect
Two tentacles
Six legs
Two pairs of wings
Three segmented body
A hue with white added is
Tone
Chroma
Tint
Accent
Heavy headed flowers, such as long mums, often bend by the flower head, nearly breaking off. What should be done to temporarily improve this situation?
Use wire to tie flower head on
Insert toothpicks pointed through the bloom into the stem
Use string to tie flower head on
Use hot glue to glue flower head on
The treatment given to Easter lilies to speed flowering is called
Drying off
Long days
Precooling
Short days
Damping-off disease of seedlings is caused by
Bacteria
Virus
Fungus
Fertilizer
The measure of how poisonous a chemical is after a single exposure is _______ toxicity
Chronic
Bad
Acute
Accurate
In order to survive in the florist business, an owner/manager must be able to determine the true value of the product and strive for improvement of the perceived value. This is called
Retail pricing
Profit pricing
Premium pricing
Discount pricing
The larger the gauge of florist wire indicates that the thickness is
Thicker
Thinner
Longer
Shorter
A floral arrangement should be finished on all sides if it is to be placed
On a mantle
In front of a mirror
Against a wall
On a bookcase
Hanging plants used in interior landscapes function to
Keep people from sitting on the edges of the plants
Float in water features
Smooth squared edges found in architecture
Hide tall, ugly equipment
Most indoor foliage plants need which kind of lighting?
Direct sunlight
Bright indirect sunlight
Medium Light
Bright light
Mass production techniques can often be used for all of the following arrangements except
Monthly in store promotions
Corsages for a large wedding
Holiday designs though the wire service
A walk in customer's anniversary flowers
Appropriate refrigeration of cut floral material involves both temperature and humidity control to
Increase microbial growth and development
Slow down respiration
None of the above
Increase water lost by transpiration
The acceleration of flowering by manipulation of environmental conditions is known as
Leaching
After-ripening
Pulsing
Forcing
Growing medium kept too wet will deprive plants of
Soluble salts
Oxygen
Fertilizer
Water
When designing a floral arrangement, after the container has been prepared, one
Begin filling in
Establish the focal lines
Establish the lines
Drain out all the water
Which type of rose has multiple large flowers on a single stem?
Grandifloras
Floribundas
Hybrid teas
Polyanthus
A ______ gauge wire is most commonly used for funeral work
24
3
28
18
An example of a mass flower is
Liatris
Rose
Larkspur
Snapdragon
The design is the easiest for a beginner because it does not require a focal point
Symmetrical
Round
Cascade
Asymmetrical
Demographics can help a florist plan
How much local wholesalers will change
Which software program will be most effective
How to calculate sales tax and report income tax
The type of hard goods they should keep in stock
Costs associated with making an arrangement, decorating a blooming plant, or creating wedding flowers are called ______
Overhead
Fixed costs
Indirect costs
Direct costs
A method of applying pesticides to plants that can be effectively used in greenhouse but not outdoors
Fumigation
Spraying
Dusting
Soil drenching
The PH on soil test results stands for
Acidity
Potential oxygen
Potential Hydrogen
Alkalinity
Analogous color harmony utilizes
Tints, shades, and tones of one hue
Two colors directly opposite each on the color wheel
Two or three adjacent colors on the color wheel
A combination of the primary and secondary colors
Commercial flower crops are sometimes watered to cause leaching. This means
Watering by subsurface methods
Watering to spread fertilizer nutrients more evenly throughout the plant root system
Watering only to wet the top 1/3 of the growing medium
Watering to remove excess soluble salts from the growing medium
When is the best time to divide a mature chrysanthemum
When it is dormant in the winter
After blooming in the fall
When the plant is not blooming during the summer
When it is about three inches tall in the spring
The three critical responsibilities of a manager in a flower shop include all of the following except
Controlling the buying, use, and sale of products
Advertising and networking the shop
Oversee the flow of money into and out of the business
Supervise people
The most important cut flower crops in the US are
Gladiolus, orchids, gardenia
Mum, rose, carnation
Rose, snapdragon, gladiolus
Carnation, rose, orchid
All of the following processes will help speed the opening of buds except
Placing stems in water with bud opening solutions
Stems should be placed in an environment with 60-80% humidity
Stems should be placed in warm temperatures between 70-80 degrees
Misting stems with cold water
Hydrangeas are forced for the following holidays
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day
Easter, Mother's Day, Memorial Day
Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day
Secretary's Day, Sweetest Day, President's Day
An organism capable of causing a disease is called
A cambium
An enzyme
A pathogen
A systemic
The term "texture", as it applies to plants, includes such adjectives as
Entire, serrate, and lobed
Smooth, fuzzy, and spiny
Corymb, umbel, panicle
Fine, medium, and coarse
Which of the following describes a good plant watering practice
Allowing water to penetrate throughout the pot
Waiting until plant leaves wilt to water
Allowing the plant to stand in water
Keeping soil constantly wet
Mass marketing is the sale of floral products
In large discount stores
All of these
In high-traffic locations
In the supermarkets
The reason for putting irregularly shaped stones or broken pieces of pottery into the bottom of a pot containing flowering plants is
It helps the soil to drain after being watered
They allow the roots to grow out of the bottom of the pot
Its just an old tradition passed down from person to person and does not help the plants
They let air into the pot from the bottom
Potted plants can be dressed up to add value to an order by using all the following, except
Cellophane
Baskets
Speed covers
Polyfoil or florists' foil
_______ is a postharvest technique used to load or fill flowers with sugar and other chemicals, giving them "strength" before they are dry-packaged and shipped long distances
Hardening
Conditioning
Pulsing
Bud-Opening Solution
These summer-blooming perennials produce dense, bristly balls of blue color
Globe thistle
Blue plumbago
Statice
Delphinium
Costs associated with making an arrangement, decorating a blooming plant or creating wedding flowers are called
Fixed costs
Direct costs
Overhead
Indirect costs
What do you NOT do when flowers arrive from the wholesaler?
Inspect for damage, overheating, and decay
Groom, remove damaged flowers or foliage
Mix preservative at recommended rate in 40-50 degree F water
Wash buckets with bleach or special floral cleaner
When cutting fresh flower stems it is best to cut them with _______ rather than shears
A pair of scissors
A knife
A set of loppers
Hook and anvil pruners
Irregularly shaped holes with smooth edges appear in Celosia leaves. Some leaves are even missing. The plants should be treated for
Leaf cutter bees
Crickets
Aphids
Slugs and snails
Upper leaves which show interveinal chlorosis probably suffer from
An iron deficiency
Lack of water
A sulfur deficiency
A nitrogen deficiency
Which of the following statements is most correct relating to sales in a floral shop
Internet sales are higher for flower shops that are not located in high-traffic locations
Online-only floral shops are becoming popular among the floral industry
Walk-in sales are guaranteed sales due to impulse buyers
Approximately 80% of sales in a flower shop are made over the telephone
Characteristic floral arrangements of the Renaissance were flowers arranged in vases so that only the ________ were visible.
Leaves
Stems
Blossoms
Fruits
Fertilizer that you add to your flowering plants contains the following elements in the correct order
Potassium, nitrogen, iron
Nitrogen, phosphorus, iron
Nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus
Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium
What is a terrarium?
A small dish garden arrangement with plants and cut flowers
A container, usually made of glass, that houses one or more live plants
None of the above
Any potted plant in a decorative color
