HORT1 - Unit 4 + 5 Crossword Test

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Across
  1. 2. Decayed organic matter used for soil conditioning and fertilizer
  2. 9. The process by which food and nutrients are moved within a plant from one plant part to another
  3. 10. The amount of air space between soil particles
  4. 13. A swollen, modified stem that grows underground.
  5. 15. Subsoil that is usually brown or reddish due to the large amount of clay.
  6. 16. This number indicates a neutral soil
  7. 17. The process through which plant leaves, stems and roots consume oxygen and give off carbon dioxide
  8. 24. A creeping underground stem, usually horizontal, that produces roots and leaves at the nodes.
  9. 25. For leaf cuttings, this vein must be cut in order to make roots form
  10. 29. Plants are categorized by zones based on the average minimum temperature
  11. 30. The process by which plants lose water from leaves and stems through evaporation
  12. 32. The food and manufacturing process in green plants that combines carbon dioxide and water in the presence of light to make sugar and oxygen
  13. 33. A form of grafting when a bud is used instead of a scion
  14. 36. Horizon is the topsoil and is home to earthworms and soil organisms.
  15. 37. Produce one seed leaf
  16. 38. An advantage of horticultural soils is it improves crop____
  17. 40. The piece of the plant at the root or bottom of graft
  18. 42. These soils have a granular soil structure
  19. 44. A creeping above ground stem that grows horizontally and produces roots and shoots at the nodes
  20. 46. Young plants grown from seeds
  21. 49. Produce two seed leaves
  22. 51. Natural volcanic material that helps aeration and water-holding capacity
  23. 52. Disadvantages of horticultural soils are that it's ____ and lightweight
  24. 53. The first sets of leaves
  25. 54. When a plant first starts to grow from a seed
  26. 55. Scarring a small area of stem to produce new plants
Down
  1. 1. The round parts of some plants that are underground
  2. 3. Carries nutrients throughout the plant
  3. 4. Tendency for plants to grow toward a light source
  4. 5. These soil structure is the best for plants.
  5. 6. The plant process that increases plant numbers
  6. 7. Mica mineral matter commonly used to start seed and cuttings
  7. 8. Partially decomposed material mined from the swamps
  8. 11. The process by which plant roots take in water and air
  9. 12. The multiplication of a kind or species. Reproduction of a species
  10. 14. The response of plants to different amounts of light regarding their flowering and reproduction cycles
  11. 18. The rate at which water moves through the soil
  12. 19. has a high carbon-to-nitrogen ratio and makes nitrogen unavailable for plant use
  13. 20. This matter is dead plant or animal tissue and contains carbon
  14. 21. This will raise the pH value in soils (make the soil less acidic)
  15. 22. a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of soils
  16. 23. These soils typically have a loose soil structure
  17. 24. Is bed rock
  18. 26. Larger matter added to some horticulture media to promote drainage
  19. 27. The piece of plant at the top of graft
  20. 28. This horizon is rich in organic matter in various stages of decomposition and is dark in color
  21. 31. Dehydrated remains of acid bog plants; commonly used to line wire hanging baskets
  22. 34. Soil layers
  23. 35. Is parent material and consists mainly of clumps of un-weathered rocks
  24. 39. has almost equal parts of sand, silt, and clay. This is the ideal texture for most non container outside plants.
  25. 41. A reproductive process that involves two parents plants that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents
  26. 42. This has the largest particles
  27. 43. These soils have a blocky or platy structure.
  28. 45. The second set of leaves
  29. 47. When a plant rests or grows very little, if any
  30. 48. Joining separate plant parts together so that they form a union and grow together to make one plant
  31. 50. An enlarged, bulb-like, fleshy structure found at the base of a stem. Usually flattened and round.