Soil
The three letters/numbers on a fertilizer bag that represent the critical macronutrients needed for plant growth.
What is N-P-K (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium)?
This is the language that binomial nomenclature is written in.
What is Latin?
This structure is a male reproductive organ of a flowering plant (it produces pollen).
What is a stamen?
This small, soft bug drinks plant sap and leaves behind a sticky fluid called honeydew.
What is an aphid?
This is the fastest-growing plant and can grow up to 35 inches in a single day!
What is bamboo?
The combination of primary soil particles into aggregated and larger secondary particles or units.
What is soil structure?
This group of flowering plants features parallel-veined leaves and floral parts in multiples of three (e.g., wheat, tulips, and garlic).
What is a monocot?
This specific part of a plant leaf connects the leaf blade directly to the main stem.
What is a petiole?
This symptom is the yellowing or whitening of plant leaves because they cannot create enough chlorophyll.
What is chlorosis?
This tree species is known as “the living fossil” as it has remained virtually unchanged for over 270 million years and survived both the dinosaurs’ extinction and the earlier Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
What is a Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)?
This soil texture has the smallest particle size.
What is clay?
This is the family that oak trees belong to.
What is Fagaceae (beech family)?
This leaf shape resembles a love heart.
What is cordate?
This metallic green insect bores into ash tree wood and kills trees across North America.
What is an emerald ash borer?
This flowering bulb was worth more than gold in the 1600s in the Netherlands.
What is a tulip (Tulipa)?
These are the stages of soil erosion.
What are detachment, transportation, and deposition?
This man is known as the “father of modern taxonomy,” as he created the binomial nomenclature system (genus and species epithet).
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
This structure is defined as a winged achene, which houses a single seed for maple trees. These are also known as “helicopters” or “whirligigs”.
What is a samara?
This famous water mold caused the historic Irish Potato Famine.
What is late blight (Phytophthora infestans)?
This rare tropical plant has a flower that can grow over 10 feet tall and warms up to 98 F, smelling like rotting meat to attract flies.
What is the corpse flower/titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum)?
This is the soil moisture state at which there is no more available water for plants, and the water is only in the micropores and is held tightly by the soil matrix.
What is Permanent Wilting Point?
This group of seed-producing vascular plants produces exposed or “naked” seeds like cones.
What are gymnosperms?
This large deciduous tree is a member of the magnolia family, has four-lobed leaves that resemble cat faces, and large, yellow-orange flowers in the spring. There are several in the quad!
What is a tulip tree or yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)?
This fungal disease covers plant leaves in a white, powdery dust.
What is powdery mildew?
This is the scientific study of fruit.
What is Pomology?