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These are small animals that have 3 body regions and 3 pairs of legs (6 legs total). Their body regions are the head, thorax and abdomen.
What are insects?
This effect occurs when heat is trapped after traveling through a transparent material (clear paneling, earth's atmosphere, etc.), ultimately raising the temperature in the contained environment.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
A disorder caused by an infectious pathogen or agent.
What are diseases?
This device measures temperatures and is often used in conjunction with other systems (fans, heaters, shade cloths, etc.) to regulate temperature.
What is a Thermostat?
Any living thing that is undesirable or harmful, especially to horticulturalists and their cultivated plants.
What are pests?
These are small arthropods with 2 body sections and 4 pairs of legs (8 legs total). Body regions are the cephalothorax (head and thorax combined) and abdomen. They do not have wings or antennae.
What are arachnids?
A type of farming that excludes the use of synthetic pesticides, medicines, fertilizers, and GMOs.
What is Organic?
The plant a pest attacks. It is one of the 3 conditions necessary for disease to spread. (We often use this term when referencing parasitism).
What are hosts?
Material that stops sunlight from reaching the greenhouse. May be on top of or inside the greenhouse. Prevents photosensitive crops from being damaged by the light. Also reduces temperatures during periods of intense sunlight and high outdoor temperatures.
What is Shade Cloth?
What type of temperature and humidity are favorable for the development of disease organisms. (Need both for credit)
What is moist (high humidity) and warm (high temperature)?
These are soft-bodied animals without a backbone. Includes slugs and snails. They feed on foliage and fruit of plants. It is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals.
What are mollusks?
A typical leaf is full of this molecule which gives them their green color. It is the ingredient that allows plants to absorb light during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
These are single-celled microorganisms that can cause the following diseases: leaf spot & blights. They have their own Domain (taxonomic rank).
What are bacteria?
Monitors relative moisture levels within the greenhouse. Additional moisture can be supplied with a fogger, which atomizes water into tiny droplets, smaller than mist.
What is a Humidistat?
What we call any unwanted plant that is growing out of place.
What is a weed?
A very small arachnid which has four pairs of legs when adult, related to the ticks. Many kinds live in the soil and a number are parasitic on plants or animals.
What are mites?
A plant, animal or microbe in which one or more changes have been made to the genome, typically using high-tech genetic engineering, in an attempt to alter the characteristics of an organism.
What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
These organisms cannot make their own food, but absorb nutrients from a host plant. Most are spread by spores and cause the following diseases in plants: damping off, rust, powdery mildew, & galls. They have their own Kingdom.
What are fungi?
Reads the amount of light that is present (in foot-candles) to determine the time of day.
What is a Photocell?
What we call a plant species that is not native to a specific area and has a negative impact on crops & local wildlife.
What is an invasive species?
This is the largest animal phylum and includes all insects and arachnids.
What are arthropods?
A biological phenomenon by which an organism produces one or more biochemicals that influence the germination, growth, survival, and reproduction of other organisms.
What is Allelopathy?
These pathogens have an extremely narrow host range and are usually a threat to crops. The most common in farming is the tobacco mosaic. They are not placed in any taxonomic Domain of life since they do not have an independent self outside a living cell.
What are viruses?
Inserts concentrated water-soluble plant nutrients into the irrigation system. The water that is released is then a diluted concentration of the added nutrients and water.
What is a Fertilizer Injector?
An environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that relies on a combination of common-sense practices.
What is Integrated Pest Management?