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Horticulture exam 2
ch 6-10
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Undergraduate 2
11/02/2010

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Today, the majority of red roses and carnations sold in teh United States are imported from...........?
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Columbia and Equador
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The labor used to grow and harvest the cut flowers sold in the United States is done primarily by...........?
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Hispanics
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Master Gardeners are trained in horticultural skills and community service activities by what?
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Cooperative Extension Service horticultural agents
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Land-grant agricultural universities were established by the Morril Act of Congress and signed into law by President.........?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Which professional areas was the primary reason for establishing land-grant universities?
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Teaching agricultural skills
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Sorghum and teff
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Sudanese
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Grapes and olives
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Greeks
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Lingen berries and cabbage
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Vikings
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Cucumbers and basil
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Romans
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Lotus flowers and cereal grains
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Egyptians
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Cyclamen and palms
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Persians
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Easter
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Lilies
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Memorial Day
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Red poppies
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St. Patrick's Day
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Shamrocks
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Christmas
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Pointsettias
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Valentines Day
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Red roses
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During his career, Dr. Karl Menninger, advocated the use of gardening programs for at-risk youth and within prison systems. What was he able to accomplish as the result of this work?
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Crime is preventable through psychiatric treatment
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The hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of teh Sncient World, were built in what country?
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Iraq
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Who was found as an infant floating in a basket made of papyrus in the Nile River?
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Moses
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In ancient Pompeii, Roman citizens grew and cultivated ornamental plants in ............?
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Atriums
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Wangari Matthai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, was responsible for ............?
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Planting over 30 million trees
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Men who joined the Roman legion were promised ...........?
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Conquered land to farm
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Under the rile of Nero, much of ancient Rome was burned. The destroyed areas were replaced with ...........?
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Wide boulevards and gardens
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The first paper was made from which plant?
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Cyperus
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Alexander the Great established a massive library containing many horticultural documents collected from his military conquests. This library was located in ...........?
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Alexandria, Egypt
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To work the sugar cane, cotton , rice and tabacco fields of the Americas and West Indies, approximately howmany slaves were brought from Africa between 1666 to 1808?
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5 million
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Theophrasus was a Greek who was known as the Father of ...........?
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Botany
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Following the War od Roses, the floral emblem of England became .........?
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A white and red rose
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The most visible color of flowers seen in a landscape by the human eye is ..........?
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Yellow
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Vehicular accidents may cause traumatic brain injusry. Approximately fifty percent of these accidents are caused by ...........?
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Alcohol abuse
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The first deaf-blind person to describe the natural world by touch, smell, and vibration was ...........?
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Helen Keller
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Which plant produces unique fragrances, such as lemon, peppermint, rose, srawberry, or chocolate from oi ducts found on the underside of their leaves?
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Geraniums
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African-American land-grant universities in teh southern states were approved by Congress and the President in which year?
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1894
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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck

 

A novel describing farming during the dust bowl

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Out of Africa
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Isak Dinesen

 

An autobiographic novel of farms in Kenya

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The Secret Garden
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Roots
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Alex Haley

 

An autobiographic history of an African family

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The Emigrants
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Vilhelm Moberg
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Unto a Good Land
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A novel of Scandinavian emigrants
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A novel of the evils of American slavery
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Botanica
Definition
Located in Wichita, Kansas
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Butchart Gardens
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Built on the site of a limestone quarry
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Longwood Gardens
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Owned and developed by the Dupont family
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Kew Gardens
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Established by British royalty
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Henry Doorly Zoo
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Contains the largest rain forest in the mid-west
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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The founder of landscape architecture
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Carl Linnaeus
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A Swedish taxonomist
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George Washington Carver
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A chemist who worked with peanuts and soybeans
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Luther Burbank
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Hybridixed a thornless cacti and Shasta daisies
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Leif Erickson
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Established a colony in Newfoundland
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Claude Monet
Definition
An impressionist painter of water lilies
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Pliny the Younger
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A famous Roman gardener
Term
Weddings and other important social events are commonly schedules at ............?
Definition
Botanical gardens
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The Handind Gardens of Babylon were built during the reign of ............?
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Assyrian King Nebuchadnezzar
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The first walled (paradise) gardens were built by the ..........?
Definition
Egyptians
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As compared to pot plants, hanging basket plants require what environmental maintenance requiements ...........?
Definition
More frequent watering
Term
Members of the wandering Jew family are best grown as ............?
Definition
Hanging basket plants
Term
The best type of container for growing cacti and succulents is ............?
Definition
A clay pot
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If a sealed glass container has lizards, turtles, or other reptiles, as well as plants, it is technically called ...............?
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A vivarium
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What gas would not be produced by the plants growing in a sealed glass container ..............?
Definition
Carbon monoxide
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Wardian cases were used to grow plants and were most popular in .............?
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Vitorian England
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Hippocrates
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Used medicinal plants to sure illness
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Socrates
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Was forced to drink poison hemlock
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Aristotle
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Established the Lyceum, a learning center to study philosophy, plants and biology
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Herodotus
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Wrote about historical Grecian gardens
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Alexander
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Unified the Greek city states and military forces
Term
The majority of prisoners in state and Federal prisons in the United States are .............?
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Minorities
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The first prison gradens and farms in the United States were located in ............?
Definition
Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania
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The largest single fre--standing greenhouse in Kansas is at a military disciplinary barracks at ..............?
Definition
Ft. Leavenworth
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Horticulural programs in Kansas prisons are used to ...........?
Definition
Provide vocational training
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What group would be the most difficult to employ?
Definition
Ex-prisoners
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