TAMU HORT 201 David Reed Exam 1
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Respiration ____________ when temperature decreases. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔decreases
Agriculture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the science and technology of growing and raising
plants and animals
Forestry, Agronomy, and Horticulture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What are the areas of
agriculture?
Forestry - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔science and technology of culturing, utilizing and
improving forest trees and their products (ex. pulp, resins, oils, etc.)
Agronomy - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔science and technology of culturing, utilizing and
improving field crops (grain, fiber and forage crops).
Horticulture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔science, technology and art of culturing, utilizing
and improving fruit, vegetable, flowering and ornamental plants.
Olericulture
Pomology
,Ornamental Horticulture
Turf - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What are the areas of horticulture?
Olericulture: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Area of horticulture: vegetable culture and
production
Ornamental Horticulture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Area of horticulture: plants grown for
aesthetic uses, improvement of quality of life and our environment, and functional uses (ex.
energy conservation).
Pomology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Area of horticulture: fruit and nut culture and
production
Floriculture
Floristry
Nursery Production
Landscape Horticulture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What are the areas of Ornamental
Horticulture?
Floriculture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔area of ornamental Horticulture: flowering and
foliage plant culture and production
Floristry - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔area of ornamental Horticulture: floral design and
retail floristry operation
Nursery Production - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔area of ornamental Horticulture: tree, shrub
and vine culture and production
Landscape Horticulture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔area of ornamental Horticulture:
exterior and interior design, construction and maintenance of landscapes
Turf - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔area of ornamental Horticulture: grasses for lawns, sport
facilities, landscapes and golf courses ( in agronomy in many Universities)
, * Intensity of Production
- i.e= strawberries vs cotton
* Purpose Crop is Grown
-
* Tradition or Custom - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What are the classical guidelines for
placement of a crop in horticulture, agronomy or forestry?
*Flower
*Leaf
*Stem
*Root - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What are the organs of a plant?
Ground or fundemental - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔what do you eat of the part of the plant
*Dermal
*Vascular
*Ground or Fundamental - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What are the tissue systems of a
plant?
protection from the environment and water loss - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What is the
function of the *dermal tissue* system?
*epidermis
*periderm or bark - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Which tissues are a part of the *dermal
tissue* system?
Epidermis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔single layer of cells on primary (herbaceous) plant
parts
Periderm or Bark - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a corky tissue that replaces epidermis on
secondary (woody) plant parts
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