Intro to Hort NC FFA Questions 2018

Question 1

Question

the part of the horticulture industry MOST associated with growing, maintaining and processing grapes is

Answer

Floriculture
Olericulture
Pomology
Viticulture

Question 2

Question

The science MOST associated with the study of plants grown for food or beautification is:

Answer

Agronomy.
Forestry.
Horticulture.
Physics.

Question 3

Question

The part of the horticulture instructional program that provides opportunities to develop leadership, teamwork, citizenship, personal growth and career success is:

Answer

FFA.
Horticulture knowledge.
Plant nursery.
Supervised Agriculture Experience.

Question 4

Question

Which horticulture division includes vegetable production is:

Answer

Floriculture.
Forestry.
Olericulture.
Turf grass.

Question 5

Question

A deciduous tree with acorns and narrow green leaves that grows about 60 feet high and forty feet wide is a:

Answer

Flowering Dogwood.
Norfolk Island Pine .
Sweetgum.
Willow Oak.

Question 6

Question

Jane has a small deciduous tree with deep pink double flowers about 2" across used as an accent plant. The tree is a:

Answer

Helleri Holly.
Japanese Flowering Cherry.
Norfolk Island Pine.
Weeping Fig.

Question 7

Question

Matthew has a small deciduous tree with white, pink, red and purple flowers on different trees. Except for the flower color, all the trees look the same including the smooth bark. The trees have many flowers all summer and early fall. These trees are:

Answer

Crape Myrtle.
Evergreen Euonymus.
Prayer Plant.
Red Maple.

Question 8

Question

An interior plant with large variegated green and cream colored large leaves that are on a thick trunk is a:

Answer

Dumbcane.
Japanese Barberry.
Norfolk Island Pine.
Winged Euonymus.

Question 9

Question

On each side of a school parking lot, Glenn observed medium-size deciduous trees that have white flowers in the spring and reddish purple leaves in the autumn. They grow in a symmetrical shape with little or no pruning. These trees are:

Answer

Border Forsythia.
Bradford Pear.
Dwarf Burford Holly.
Japanese Aucuba.

Question 10

Question

If Lynwood saw a plant with the word "Pinus" in the scientific name, what kind of plant would it be?

Answer

Maple.
Pine.
Oak.
Sweetgum.

Question 11

Question

A large deciduous tree with star-shaped leaves that turn yellow, orange, red and purple in the fall and also has burns oe prickly balls is a:

Answer

Crape Myrtle.
Norfolk Island Pine.
Sweetgum.
Winged Euonymus.

Question 12

Question

David's neighbor has a large evergreen shrub with many large flowers and dark green leaves with smooth margins. The leaves are about 5" long and 2" wide. He has seen plants similar to this growing in shade beside roads in the mountains of North Carolina. The shrub is a:

Answer

Bar Harbor Juniper.
Catawba Rhododendron.
Japanese Privet.
River Birch.

Question 13

Question

The lawn at the local library has a large deciduous tree about fifty feet tall with leaves that have five to seven lobes and three or four bristle tips on each lobe that turn brilliant red in the autumn. It also has acorns. This tree is a:

Answer

Pin Oak.
Red Maple.
River Birch.
Weeping Fig.

Question 14

Question

Wayne has a large deciduous shrub with many bright yellow flowers in very early spring. It is a:

Answer

Mugo Pine.
Parlor Ivy.
Shasta Daisy.
Border Forsythia.

Question 15

Question

A large evergreen tree has four to eight inch brown curving cones and needle like leaves four inches long with five needles per cluster, What is the name of this tree?

Answer

Eastern Red Bud.
Eastern White Pine
Evergreen Euonymus.
Fosteria Holly

Question 16

Question

Lauren has a tall tree near her home. The deciduous tree has dark green star shaped leaves., and it has many prickly balls or burs on the ground. What is the common name for this tree?

Answer

Eastern Red Bud.
Eastern White Pine.
River Birch.
Sweetgum.

Question 17

Question

What is the scientific name for Flowering Dogwood.

Answer

Acer Rubrum.
Cornus Florida.
Liriope Muscari.
Tagetes Erecta.

Question 18

Question

An indoor flowering plant grown for hanging baskets and potted plants and has red, white, or pink flowers and green leaves that usually have long petioles and is popular for Mother's Day is a:

Answer

Boston Fern.
Catawba Rhododendron.
Geranium.
Japanese Flowering Cherry.

Question 19

Question

Travis visited his old ball field and found a large evergreen shrub with dark green leaves that are 3" long and 1 1/2" wide with raised veins underneath. It has 1/4" dark purple berries with a hard seed inside. This shrub is a:

Answer

Border Forsythia.
Day Lilly.
Japanese Privet.
Sprengeri Fern.

Question 20

Question

The openings or stomates in the lower leaf surface are opened and closed by the:

Answer

Guard Cells.
Lateral Buds.
Margins.
Xylem.

Question 21

Question

The edge of a leaf is the:

Answer

Midrib.
Terminal Bud.
Margin.
Veins.

Question 22

Question

What type of flower has ONLY male or ONLY female flower parts?

Answer

Asexual.
Complete.
Incomplete.
Pretty.

Question 23

Question

The plant part that attracts insects for pollination is the:

Answer

Flower.
Leaf.
Root.
Steam.

Question 24

Question

The green color of leaves is caused by the:

Answer

Epidermis.
Chloroplasts.
Guard Cells.
Margin.

Question 25

Question

Which is part of a steam?

Answer

Anther.
Filament.
Leaf Scars.
Root Cap.

Question 26

Question

The part of a flower that develops into a fruit is the:

Answer

Anther.
Ovary.
Filament.
Petal.

Question 27

Question

The beginning of the food chain for all living things in the process of photosynthesis which takes place in plant:

Answer

Flowers.
Leaves.
Roots.
Stems.

Question 28

Question

Plants that take three or more years to complete their life cycle are:

Answer

Annuals.
Biennials.
Millenniums.
Perennials.

Question 29

Question

The primary function of plant seeds is:

Answer

Absorption.
Photosynthesis.
Plant Identification.
Sexual Reproduction.

Question 30

Question

What type bud is on the side of a stem?

Answer

Apical.
Lateral.
Lentical.
Terminal.

Question 31

Question

The primary function of fruit is to:

Answer

Absorb water and nutrients from soil.
Carry, nourish and protect seeds.
Connect roots to leaves.
Manufacture food for the plant.

Question 32

Question

Monocot stems have the xylem and phloem:

Answer

In small bundles scattered through the stem.
In ten layers or ten circles.
On each side of the cambium layer.
On the outside of the stem.

Question 33

Question

As part of regular biological processes, a deciduous tree:

Answer

Dies each year in the winter.
Drops its functional leaves in the dormant season.
Keeps its functional leaves in the dormant season.
Remains green all the year.

Question 34

Question

Plants that complete their life cycles in two years are:

Answer

Annuals.
Biennials.
Centennials.
Perennials.

Question 35

Question

If a plant is turgid, it is:

Answer

Drowned and drooping.
Pale green or yellow.
Swollen with moisture.
Wilted from lack of water.

Question 36

Question

Marigolds and other warm season plants grow BEST during:

Answer

Early spring.
Late Fall.
Mid summer.
Mid winter.

Question 37

Question

Because trees live many years, they are:

Answer

Annuals.
Biennials.
Perennials.
Semi-Annuals.

Question 38

Question

The terms annual, biennial and perennial describe plant:

Answer

Leaf loss.
Life cycle.
Production practices.
Root type.

Question 39

Question

MOST cool season grasses grow very little during the hottest months of summer. What is this condition called?

Answer

Dead.
Turgid.
Wilted.
Dormant

Question 40

Question

In North Carolina, a tree that has no leaves in the winter is:

Answer

Evergreen.
Herbaceous.
Deciduous.
Turgid.

Question 41

Question

Annual plants complete their life cycle in:

Answer

One year.
Two years.
Three years.
Ten years.

Question 42

Question

An old home has a larger evergreen tree with big shiny leaves, white flowers that are 6" to 9" across and cone like pods with red seeds. What is the common name of the tree?

Answer

Japanese Flowering Cherry.
Japanese Maple.
Southern Magnolia.
Sweetgum.

Question 43

Question

If Jody wants to learn more about the words used in the scientific classification, he would study:

Answer

French.
Latin.
Russian.
Spanish.

Question 44

Question

What is the texture of soils that have about equal parts of sand, clay and silt?

Answer

Loamy.
Clayey.
Sandy.
Silty.

Question 45

Question

Wendy has problems getting flowers to grow in the one of her flower beds. If she wants to send a soil sample to the laboratory to get recommendations to correct her problem, she should take cores or slices from:

Answer

All the flower beds.
All the flower beds expect problem one.
The entire lawn.
The problem flower bed.

Question 46

Question

Calcium, magnesium, and sulfur are:

Answer

Macronutrients.
Micronutrients.
Primary elements.
Secondary elements.

Question 47

Question

Robin saw some medium sized deciduous shrubs near the school sidewalks. The plants have 1" long leaves, small spines at the leaf nodes and 1/4" to 1/2" red berries. These shrubs are:

Answer

Helleri Holly.
Japanese Barberry.
Pin oak.
Prayer Plant

Question 48

Question

If a plant has a phosphorus deficiency, a symptom that usually appears is:

Answer

Cupped or curled leaf tips.
Rotting fruit on young plants.
Purplish color in older leaves.
Yellow leaves with green veins.

Question 49

Question

At the back of his lot, Ben observed a large deciduous tree about sixty feet tall and forty feet wide that has narrow green leaves and small acorns. What is the name of this tree?

Answer

Eastern White Pine
Leyland Cypress
Red Maple.
Willow Oak.

	Created by Cheyenne Handy over 6 years ago

Next up

Intro to Hort NC FFA Questions 2018

Description

Resource summary

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5

Question 6

Question 7

Question 8

Question 9

Question 10

Question 11

Question 12

Question 13

Question 14

Question 15

Question 16

Question 17

Question 18

Question 19

Question 20

Question 21

Question 22

Question 23

Question 24

Question 25

Question 26

Question 27

Question 28

Question 29

Question 30

Question 31

Question 32

Question 33

Question 34

Question 35

Question 36

Question 37

Question 38

Question 39

Question 40

Question 41

Question 42

Question 43

Question 44

Question 45

Question 46

Question 47

Question 48

Question 49

Similar