FFA Nursery/Landscape Test Review

Nursery/Landscape Test Questions

150 cards   |   Total Attempts: 191
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
PVC pipe for irrigation is joined by connectors/couplings that are ____ to the pipe.
Glued
Similar to the textural appearance of plants, ____ can be used to create spatial illusions in a perennial garden.
Color
To preserve the germination ability of most seeds, store them in a:
Cool, dry environment
____ drawings show an object as seen by the eyes at eye-level.
Perspective
Fireblight is a disease that most often affects susceptible plants:
During periods of rapid, succulent growth
The soil pH level primarily controls:
Availability of essential plant nutrients
Three types of ground patterns used in landscape design are ____.
Curved-line, arc-and-tangent, straight-line
Training plants into three-dimensional ornamental forms, such as animals, is called:
Topiary
Clay soils require:
A longer time for absoption of irrigation water than sandy soils.
The approximate range of average annual minimum temperature for Plant Hardiness Zone 5 is:
-20 to -10 degrees
Fertilizer recommendations are often given in pounds of nitrogen per thousand square feet. How many 50 pound bags of 10-10-10 fertilizers should be applied to an area 50 X 100 ft. if the recommendation is for 2 pounds of nitrogen per 1000 sq. ft.?
2
Plants that have been clipped or pruned into two-dimensional forms are:
Espalier
A transplanted tree of shrub should be set into the ground:
At the same depth at which it was originally growing
Which of the following is true about lady bug beetles? They:
Eat aphids
Plants that use less water and are tolerant of dry landscape sites are called:
Xerophytes