Exam 1-3 scsc 302 Hall Questions With Complete Solutions

The sector (in Texas) in which the most turf money is spent, and involves the most acreage _. correct answer: home lawns The biggest turf labor expense is _. correct answer: mowing The biggest challenge to the turf industry in coming years in the Southwest is _. correct answer: water _ makes a grass a turf grass. correct answer: tolerance to regular mowing Grasses have a fibrous _ system. correct answer: root Site of most photosynthesis: _ correct answer: leaf Secondary lateral stem in bunch-type grasses like rygrasses: _. correct answer: tiller Below-ground secondary lateral stem: _. correct answer: rhizome Pore through which gaseous exchange occurs _. correct answer: stomate An irreversible increase in size _. correct answer: growth Breaking down of carbohydrates to produce energy _. correct answer: respiration A change in form, as from vegetative to reproductive _. correct answer: development The production of carbohydrates from CO2 and water in the presence of light _. correct answer: photosynthesis The major storage site for carbohydrates in turfgrasses _. correct answer: lateral stems What type of turf grass would be best suited for a football field for an NFL team in San Antonio? correct answer: Tifway Bermuda What type of turf grass would be best suited for a shady lawn in Houston that tends to get mowed with a dull blade? correct answer: St. Augustinegrass What type of turf grass would be best suited for a practice football field on a small budget? correct answer: Common bermuda What type of turf grass would be best suited a golf course putting green in Missouri? correct answer: Bentgrass What type of turf grass would be best suited for a moderately shady lawn in Houston that will be mowed at half an inch? correct answer: Zoysia What type of turf grass would be best suited for a sunny lawn in southern Georgia (hot+wet) correct answer: Centipedegrass What type of turf grass would be best suited for an irrigated lawn in Dallas? correct answer: tall fescue What type of turf grass would be best suited for a grass used for overseeing golf course fairways and greens in the south? correct answer: Perennial ryegrass What type of turf grass would be best suited for a sunny lawn in Michigan? correct answer: Kentucky bluegrass What type of turf grass would be best suited for a roadside in San Antonio? correct answer: Buffalograss There are differences among St. Augustinegrass cultivars in _. correct answer: shade tolerance, drought tolerance and resistance to SAD What type of turf grass would be best suited for a lawn in South Texas, full sun to light shade, and the neighbors complain about chinch bugs? correct answer: Floratam St. Augustinegrass Traditionally, the St. Augustinegrass cultivar which is most widely sold is: correct answer: Raleigh A layer of non or partially decomposed plant parts just above the soil surface is called _. correct answer: thatch Bermudagrass has _. correct answer: both stolons and rhizomes Which of the following grasses is likely to present mowing difficulties? correct answer: Zoysia Which of the following CANNOT normally be established successfully from seed? correct answer: St. Augustinegrass/Tifwaybermuda The most common hybrid bermudagrass found on sports fields and fairways, it is considered the "industry standard" for warm season sportsturf. correct answer: Tifway Bermuda A major cool season weed in the South, this grass is sometimes managed as a perennial in the North. correct answer: Annual bluegrass The most heat tolerance of the following: creeping bentgrass, zoysia, tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass. correct answer: Zoysia A low maintenance turf grass that is not used for high quality lawns because of its lack of density and uns