Forestry
What is the biggest forest in the world?
The Amazon Forest.
What is agronomy and what does it focus on?
Agronomy is a branch of Botany dealing with field-crop production and soil management.
What is Archaeobotany?
The study of ancient plants remains.
What is the most used machine in the horticulture industry?
Tractors.
What is the most commonly seen disease in plants?
Fungal Plant Diseases.
True or False. Forests are NOT biodiverse.
False
What is the most common plant in agronomy?
Rice, corn, and wheat.
What is the other name for Archaeobotany?
Paleoethnobotany.
What is the rarest fruit?
Black Sapote.
What are the 3 techniques of plant pathology?
Traditional, Serological, and Nucleic Acid.
What are the 3 main types of forests?
Temperate, Tropical, and Boreal.
What is the most harmful bug to agronomy?
Mediterranean Fruit Fly.
What is the oldest plant fossil on Earth?
Posidonia Australis.
What size scale is single crops grown on?
Large scales.
What is Downy Mildew?
Mildew on a plant which is marked by a whitish down composed of spore-forming hyphae, penetrating more deeply into the plant than powdery mildew.
How many hectares does forestry cover in Canada?
347.
What type of crops are agronomic crops?
Staple food crops.
Proterocladus is the rarest plant fossil on Earth. It is more than 1 billion years old. Why did it live so long?
Oxygen.
How long does it take for a Rose to fully grow?
2 years.
What is Fire Blight?
A disease that can kill blossoms and shoots and cause dieback of branches from cankers.
The Gobi Desert reforestation project began in 1978, with the proposed end result of raising northern China's forest cover from 5 to 15 percent. Why did it not work?
The Gobi Desert reforestation did not work because it was too late for the desert to reclaim its land. The desert was already too dry because of climate change, and the Gobi was too far away from the cities.
What are the micronutrients required by the crops?
Iron, Boron, Zinc, Molybdenum.
The Moroccan Meseta or Western Meseta, are uplifted terranes of dominantly Palaeozoic rocks exposed along what coastal block?
Moroccan coastal block between the Atlantic Margin and the Middle Atlas.
What type of investment is necessary to set up a horticulture unit?
A High Capital Investment.
What is Crown Gall?
A plant disease caused by the soil-inhabiting bacterium. The bacterium causes abnormal growths or galls on roots, twigs, and branches of euonymus and other shrubs primarily in the rose family.