2.00 Hort. Vocab

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  1. 1. The science and practice of growing, maintaining and processing grapes.
  2. 3. Designed primarily to help students become literate in agriculture and/or become aware of possible careers in agriculture.
  3. 4. Course Employee, Responsible for maintenance of: golf course including turfgrass, irrigation and drainage, sand traps, trees and shrubs, buildings and equipment.
  4. 6. Completed outside of normal classroom hours, may be paid or non-paid. These SAE's involve being placed in an agricultural area to provide a "learning by doing" environment. Students must have a training agreement signed.
  5. 8. Center Employee, Cares for plants, moves plants and supplies, arranges plants and supplies, along with selling plants and related supplies.
  6. 9. Agricultural Experience, Programs consisting of planned practical activities conducted outside of class time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills.
  7. 12. The science and practice of growing, harvesting, storing, processing and marketing vegetables.
  8. 14. An extensive activity where the student plans and conducts a major agricultural experiment using the scientific process.
  9. 15. Maintenance Employee, Cares for the land area and plants that surround a business, school, church, industry or other public or private places that have lawns and plants that have the be maintained.
  10. 16. Students choose an agricultural problem that is not amendable to experimentation and design a plan to investigate and analyze the problem.
  11. 18. ,The science and practice of growing, harvesting, storing, processing and marketing tree grown fruits.
  12. 19. Latin word meaning "cultivation"
  13. 21. Impact of Horticulture, Includes health and comfort by cleaning air, preventing erosion, providing shade and nutrition.
  14. 22. Employee, Maintains plants, grounds, buildings, facilities, equipment and driveways in national, state, city, or privately owned parks.
  15. 23. Importance of Horticulture, $25 billion dollars annually into the economy which provides jobs, produces food, increases the value of homes through landscaping.
  16. 25. Value of Horticulture, Improves the appearance of homes and buildings through landscaping, also
Down
  1. 2. the appearance of land from fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops grown.
  2. 5. Employee, Grows vegetables and cut flowers including cut flowers, bedding plants, potted plants and hanging baskets.
  3. 7. Student plans, implements, operates and assumes financial risks in a farming activity or agricultural business.
  4. 10. ,The science and practice of growing, harrvesting, storing, designing and marketing flowering plants.
  5. 11. Student performs one specific agricultural skill outside of normal class time.
  6. 13. A series of learning activities that improves the value or appearance of the place of employment, home, school or community; the efficiency of an enterprise or business or the living conditions of a family.
  7. 15. annuals, shrubs and trees.
  8. 17. ,Latin word meaning "garden"
  9. 20. and Nursery, The science and practice of propagation, growing, planting, maintaining and using
  10. 24. Employee, Grows seedlings and plants for landscaping, replanting in forest, or producing fruit.