This is the level of acidity and percent hydrogen in the soil.
What is soil pH?
100
This conifer has 5 long needles and is very abundant in our forest. The Latin name is Pinus strobus.
What is Eastern White Pine?
100
Steel-toed Boots, Chaps, Safety Goggles, Hard Helmet, Ear Muffs, Face Screen and Gloves.
What is PPE?
100
This movie was about two guys who moved to grain belt to grow a crop and learn about the vital importance of US farming and its relation to GMO food production.
What is King Corn?
200
This part of the plant provides structure and support.
What is the stem?
200
Sand, Silt and Clay.
What are the three soil particles.
200
This ornamental shrub has bright red foliage in the fall, and wings on the stems. The Latin name is Euonymous alatus.
What is winged euonymous?
200
This tools is used for cutting branches the size of your thumb or smaller.
What are hand pruners?
200
Ian and Curtis Packed up and left Boston to move to Iowa. They purchased one acre of land to grow this crop.
What is corn?
300
This part of the plant is colorful and is where reproduction takes place.
What is the flower?
300
Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium (N,P,K).
What are the most important nutrients to plant growth?
300
This perennial blooms through the summer in a variety of colors. This plant is named for the flowers because they only last for 24 hours before sending new shoots. The Latin name is Hemerocallis spp.
What is a daylily?
300
This tool is used for cutting branches the size of your wrist or smaller.
What are loppers?
300
Corn, Soybeans, and Cotton are the top three __________ grown in America.
What are GMO Crops?
400
This part of the plant acts as an anchor and takes up minerals and water.
What is the root?
400
Organic Matter, Water, Minerals, and Air.
What is soil made of?
400
This plant grows on buildings and other structures and can easily wrap itself around poles and signs, the foliage turns red in the fall and is abundant in the capital of Massachusetts. The Latin name is Parthenocissus tricuspidata.
What is Boston Ivy?
400
We prune this type of tree during the winter when the tree is dormant, the leaves have fallen off, and we will not affect the growth habit.
What are apples and fruit trees?
400
This herbicide made mostly of glysophate, is the reason GMO crops are heavily produced and depended on in America. Most of these GMO crops are resistant to this chemical so they will survive when sprayed, but the surrounding weeds will not.
What is Round-up?
500
Terminal Bud, Axillary bud, Leaf Scar, Bud Scale Scar, Lenticels, Nodes, Internodes and the Pith are all parts of this.
What is the stem?
500
In layers, you will find organic matter, top soil A, top soil B, parent material, then bedrock.
What is the soil profile?
500
This beautiful ornamental tree has four-petaled flowers, in either pink or white, sometimes both. The Latin name is Cornus florida, the bark is worse than its bite.
What is flowering dogwood?
500
This part of the tree is vital to the production of fruit, everywhere you see one of these, you will have fruit in the fall so we must never cut them off.
What is a spur?
500
The corn grown in this country is primarily used for these two purposes.
What are food additives and sweeteners, and livestock feed?