Lawn Care Turfgrass Management Exam Questions with Verified Answers
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Environmental turf grass management
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Environmental Turf Grass Management
What are the 3 functions of turfgrass or lawns in a landscape? - Answer-ornamental, sports and recreation, utility
What are 5 factors of a grass species that determines its selection? - Answer-regional adaptation, growth habit, texture, resistance to wear, drought tolerance
What are the 2 gro...
Lawn Care Turfgrass Management Exam
Questions with Verified Answers
What are the 3 functions of turfgrass or lawns in a landscape? - Answer-ornamental,
sports and recreation, utility
What are 5 factors of a grass species that determines its selection? - Answer-regional
adaptation, growth habit, texture, resistance to wear, drought tolerance
What are the 2 groups of turfgrasses based on regional adaptation of grass species? -
Answer-cool-season and warm-season
What is the best growing temperature of a cool season grass? - Answer-60-75F
What happens to cool-seasons grasses during hot weather? - Answer-become dormant
and may even be killed
Between what temperatures does active growth cease for a cool season grass? -
Answer-80-90F
Provide 5 examples of cool-seasons grasses. - Answer-annual and perennial ryegrass,
Kentucky bluegrass, red fescue, tall fescue
Warm-season grasses are considered __________ species grown in warm southern
areas. - Answer-subtropical
What are the best growing temperatures for a warm-season grass? - Answer-80-95F
What should the soil temperature average be for the best growth of warm-season
grasses? - Answer-60F
Warm-season grasses become __________ when cold temperatures arrive. - Answer-
dormant
In northern areas, warm-season grasses may only be green for how many months out
of the year? - Answer-3-4
Provide 5 examples of warm-season grasses. - Answer-bermudagrass, buffalograss,
zoysia, st. augustinegrass, bahiagrass
Turgrasses can have 1 of 2 growth habits, what are these? - Answer-bunch-type and
creeping-type
How do bunch-type grasses grow? - Answer-upright clumps and spread slowly
, How do creeping-type grasses grow? - Answer-spread out by means of stolons or
rhizomes
How does new growth spread for bunch-type grasses? - Answer-tillers arising from
crown
Provide 2 examples of a bunch-type grass. - Answer-fescues and ryegrasses
Do creeping-type grasses grow together? How? - Answer-yes, by spreading out
True or False: Creeping-type grasses can spread into unwanted areas. - Answer-True
Provide 3 examples of creeping-type grasses. - Answer-Kentucky bluegrass,
bermudagrass, zoysia
What are the 2 basic textures of grass species? - Answer-fine and coarse
What appearance do fine-textured grasses have? - Answer-refined
What are fine-textured grasses good for? - Answer-golfing
Provide 2 examples of cool season fine-textured grasses and 2 examples of warm
season fine-textured grasses. - Answer-cool - Kentucky bluegrass, bentgrass
warm - bermuda grass, zoysia
What appearance do coarse-textured grasses have? - Answer-less manicured
What are coarse-textured grasses good for? - Answer-playing fields
Provide an example of a cool and warm season coarse-textured grass. - Answer-cool -
tall fescue
warm - bahiagrass
Certain grass species tolerate wear better than others. This is known as __________ to
__________. - Answer-resistance to wear
What types of situations get heavy usage by people? - Answer-ball fields and
playgrounds
What are 2 cool-season grasses for heavy use? - Answer-tall fescue, perennial
ryegrass
What are 3 warm-season grasses for heavy use? - Answer-bermudagrass, bahiagrass,
zoysia
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