Quiz Bowl Extended Practice 4

What ways do plants take up nutrients?(select all that apply)

What is the Carbon to N Ratio?

What do you need for composting

The Colorado potato beetle likes to feed one what family of plants?

What type of root does alfalfa have?

Percentage of residue common for conservation tillage

Branched-chain amino acid inhibitors are symplastically translocated.

Soil order cahracterized by permafrost?

Floral induction occurs in grasses in what time of year?

A pH of 6 is how many times more acidic than a pH of 8?

Biochar is:

Which is not a way to limit soil erosion?

Which type of soil partilce is the easiest to detach due to lack of cohesiveness or ability to stick together?

Approximately how many different herbicides were commonly available at the beginning of WWII?

Used to collect nocturnal insects?

What category of forages comprise of nuts and seeds of woody species?

Which of the following elements is NOT essential to plant growth?

What structure allows for regrowth in white clover?

Tillage assists weed control by:

Stink bugs belong to which order of insects?

A saprophytic feeder feeds on:

Which is not a class of wheat?

One of the greatest causes of erosion in the Mediterranean has been:

Which soil conditions will favor the opportunity for water to rise the highest above the free-water table?

Herbicides registered prior to what year must be re-registered?

What do you call an organism that produces all its own food?

What unit is stocking rate measured in?

How many square feet are in an acre?

Erosion in South Africa was not a problem until:

Any herbaceous broadleaf that is not a grass or legume

Which of the following essential elements comes from the soil solids?

What element helps improve winter survival rates in forages?

A residue with a high C:N ratio will cause:

What is the Latin name of tall waterhemp?

What equipment is used to trap insects that crawl along the ground, such as ground beetles.

When was daylight savings time started?

Which is not a requirement for a seed to germinate?

An eroded soil is degraded in what way(s)?

The type of water that recharges the ground water in the largest volume is:

P deficiency in young corn plants appears as:

Which is a group of wingless soil insects?

More than half of the annual soil loss occurs:

The ideal soil herbicide would remain active for several crop seasons.

The growth of plants in a soilless environment is called:

Today, increased production occurs mostly through:

3 stages of germination?

In what decade was the hybrid corn developed?

Which type of crop is grown to be plowed or disked under to benefit organic matter, structure, and permeability?

How much of a 20G pesticide is needed to provide 1 pound of A.I.?

The amount of plant available phosphate in a fertilizer includes:

The primary source of potassium in soil is:

What part of the crop do wireworms affect

Soil surveys are a means of _______ soils where they occur.

PSNT is a laboratory method to estimate levels of what nutrient?

What piece of equipment would you use to collect insects from soil and leaf litter?

What does IPM stand for?

Sulfur deficiency symptoms first appear on:

What two types of eyes does an insect have?

An example of intermittent erosion:

What is the Latin name of peanut?

Which radiation is absorbed by glass, such that you cannot get a sunburn in a greenhouse with it

Which tillage tool has the greatest erosion potential?

Flaring of squares in cotton is due to?