Cell Structure and Processes
Plant Parts
Plant ID
FFA/ SAE
Plant Biology Terms
100
Vascular tissue that carries water and other nutrients from the roots to the stem and leaves.
What is Xylem?
100
The leaf stalk that connects the leaf to the stem.
What is the Petiole?
100
An Evergreen houseplant that is variegated with parallel veins. This plant propagates easily by removing new plantlets from the shoots of the plant.
What is Spider Plant?
100
A brown handbook for running meetings effectively and efficiently, using parliamentary procedure.
What is Robert's Rules of Order?
100
The branch of biology that deals with plants.
What is Botany?
200
The thin, green actively growing tissue in the stem that produces new stem cells.
What is the Cambium layer?
200
The large central vein of the leaf.
What is the Midrib?
200
This houseplant is bi-pinnately compound with needles.
What is the Norfolk Island Pine?
200
The official colors of the FFA.
What are National Blue and Corn Gold?
200
The science and practice of growing, managing, and harvesting trees for building materials and other products.
What is Forestry?
300
Small openings under the leaf used for breathing and transpiration.
What are Stomates?
300
The complete male reproductive anatomy of a flower.
What is the Stamen?
300
A flowering ornamental tree that has a pungent odor and frail limbs. It is used for its aesthetic appeal.
What is a Bradford Pear?
300
An SAE in which a student owns and operates an agricultural business.
What is an Entrepreneurship SAE?
300
The science of growing field crops such as tobacco, corn, soybeans, and other food based crops.
What is Agronomy?
400
A pigment found within the leaves of the plant that is necessary for photosynthesis and the green color of the plants.
What is Chlorophyll?
400
The old, inactive xylem of the tree.
What is the Heartwood?
400
An Evergreen ground cover with scales that is soft to the touch.
What is Creeping Juniper?
400
An SAE in which a student gets a job or internship on a farm or ranch, at an agriculture-based business, or in a school or factory laboratory.
What is a Placement SAE?
400
The science and practice of growing, processing, and marketing fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants for aesthetic quality.
What is Horticulture?
500
The sugar molecule that is the end process of photosynthesis.
What is Glucose?
500
Breathing pores located on the stem that take in CO2 and O2 for Photosynthesis and cellular respiration, respectively.
What are lenticles?
500
The state flower of North Carolina is found on this ornamental tree.
What is the Flowering Dogwood?
500
Additional hours outside of one's SAE that are agriculturally based that go toward the total hours of the SAE.
What are Supplementary hours?
500
The four divisions of Horticulture.
What are Floriculture, Landscape and Nursery Production, Olericulture, and Pomology?
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