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Louisiana environmental horticulture industry EXAM STUDY GUIDE A Nursery Sales person must be able to... - Answer- Identify plants by common and scientific, Latin, or botanical names. When do you consider the confusion of the common name "cedar" ? - Answer- When its applied to plants that include: arborvitae, cedar, cypress, false cypress, and junipers The American joint committee on horticultural nomenclature has adopted what? - Answer- Standardized plant names, a diction...

The Louisiana Manual for the Environmental Horticulture Industry What is the difference between a cultivar and variety? - Answer- Variety: evolutionary, naturally created in nature Cultivar: agro-technical, created by human Who is Linnaeus? What system of naming plants did he create? - Answer- A swedish botanist from the 1700s credited for creating the binomial system of nomenclature Why is it important to know common and scientific names of plants? - Answer- To be able to ...

Louisiana Landscape Horticulture A-M Acid Soil - Answer- Soil with a pH of less than 7.0. Agricultural lime is used to raise the pH and correct a very acid soil condition. Acre - Answer- A land containing 43,560 square feet and measuring approximately 210' x 210' square Actual - Answer- The part of the formula of any product, containing several ingredients, which refers to a specific ingredient. For example, a 5-pound box of a general purpose plant food (10-10-10) would ha...

Louisiana Horticulture Study Guide 11-20-23 Linneaus - Answer- developed binomial nomenclature binomial nomenclature - Answer- Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name cultivar - Answer- special group that retain their distinguishing features when propagated variety - Answer- naturally occurring subgroup within species importance of proper naming of plants - Answer- customer protection, legal requirements, communication...

Louisiana landscape Horticulture state exam Cultivars - Answer- designates a special group of plants, may differ in growth habit, season of maturity, fruit, color, shape root systems - Answer- taproot and fibrous function of root system - Answer- absorption, anchorage, conduction, storage taproot - Answer- grows directly downward stems - Answer- support, conduction, storage conduction - Answer- movement of water, mineral solutions, and substances manufac...

Louisiana Landscape Horticulture Contractor Six legs attached to thorax. Head, thorax, abdomen. One pair of antennae. One or two pairs of wings. - Answer- List key identifying characteristics of insects - Answer- What is the fertilizer equation Head, thorax, abdomen - Answer- What are an insects three body regions? Chewing (with strong mandibles), sucking (like a butterfly proboscis), piercing-sucking (like aphids) - Answer- What are the three different types of ins...

Louisiana Horticulture License Review A plant's scientific name of a plant is composed of _________ and _________. - Answer- genus and species Alba is a term that describes a plant as _________. - Answer- white Triacanthos describes a plant that is _________. - Answer- three spined The functions of the root system are: - Answer- anchorage, absorption, conduction and storage The tap root could be described as: - Answer- a fleshy food storing organ When a pe...

Louisiana Horticulture Test Study Guide What is the difference between a cultivar and variety? - Answer- Cultivar- A plant or grouping of plants selected for desirable characteristics that can be maintained by propagation Variety- A naturally occurring subgroup of a species which has some distinguishing characters Who is Linnaeus? What system of naming plants did he create? - Answer- Linnaeus is a Swedish Botanist who developed the Binomial System of Nomenclature(Genus + Species...

Louisiana Horticulture Exam 2024 4 major plant parts include - Answer- roots stems leaves reproductive parts 4 functions of the root system include - Answer- absorption anchorage conduction storage 2 kind of root systems found in plants are - Answer- fibrous root systems and taproot systems Fibrous root system - Answer- root system that consists of numerous multi-branched roots that are slender; no one root is more prominent than the other. Tap root syst...

Marketing 202 - Chapter 7 Measurement and scaling - Answer- Measurement is the assignment of numbers or other symbols to characteristics of objects according to certain set rules. Scaling is the generation of a continuum upon which measured objects are located. Measurement is usually the assignment of numbers to characteristics of objects according to certain set rules. You measure some characteristic of the object and not the object itself. Scaling may be considered an extension of...