Understanding Horticulture
The culture of plants for food, comfort and beauty
What is Horticulture?
Devices worn to protect people from injury.
What is PPE? (What is personal protective equipment?)
Found at the root tip, is where new cells develop
What is apical meristem?
This is where the root stores the food produced by the leaves; it is made out of parenchyma tissue.
What is cortex?
My Name
What is Ms. Ortiz?
The field of science that deals with the cultivation of horticulture plants
What is Horticulture science?
________ is also important in horticulture. Working with chemicals or around vapors and fumes can cause lung injury or death if you are not careful.
What is respirator?
Protects the apical meristem from damage as it passes through coarse soil particles.
What is root cap?
the inner boundary of the cortex; one cell layer thick; controls the movement of water and minerals into the xylem and phloem
What is endodermis?
What is the Bull Dog?
The production, transportation and use of flowering or foliage plants.
What is Floriculture?
A collection of supplies and equipment that is used to give medical treatment.
What is a first aid kit?
The surface of the root is protected by skin cells called the___________
What is epidermis?
forms the central cylinder of the root; it is made out of two secondary transport tissues
What is vascular cylinder?
The crops I brought in that are Tap Roots
What are carrots and radish?
Includes the planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of vegetable crops.
What is olericulture?
Knee length water proof rubber or plastic shoe used to protect self from chemicals and water.
What is rubber boots?
Long hair like projections
What are root hairs?
carries the water taken in by the root hairs and epidermis up the plant to the stems and leaves
What is xylem?
A system which has no dominant primary root but is made of many primary and secondary roots of similar size is called____
What is fibrous root?
The combination of scientific, technological, and production activities designed to meet the needs of the horticulture consumer.
What is horticulture industry?
__________________is also important, especially when working around tractors or large machinery
What is hearing protection?
Where the cells start to divide through mitosis
What is Region of Cell Division?
carries the food produced by the leaves down to the roots to be stored in the cortex
What is phloem?
What seed did we plant today?
What is radish?