Exam 37: Plant Nutrition

Choose the appropriate category of general plant nutritional requirement for each element given below. -gold

In temperate forests, many mosses and lichens are epiphytes.

What are soil mineral particles that are less than 0.002 mm in diameter called?

Choose the appropriate category of general plant nutritional requirement for each element given below. -zinc

Which of the following elements is considered an essential micronutrient for plants?

What is cation exchange in plant roots?

Which of the following elements is considered an essential micronutrient for plants?

Trace the route of most mineral ions from entering a plant to being used for the plant's metabolic reactions.

Choose the appropriate category of general plant nutritional requirement for each element given below. -oxygen

What kind of process is called hydroponic culture?

What are soil mineral particles that range from 0.02 to 0.002 mm in diameter called?

What are soil particles that are decomposing organic matter called?

Which of the following do mycorrhizae, present for most plant species, generally NOT help roots with the uptake of?

Why might a soil that has a sufficient concentration of a mineral element, such as calcium, not have sufficient availability of the element to maximize plant growth rates?

Farmers often grow legumes such as soybeans every few years and plow much of the plant parts into the soil. What does this practice mainly serve?

The most common limit to plant growth is the lack of which nutrient?

Choose the appropriate category of general plant nutritional requirement for each element given below. -sulfur

Which soil region is the most fertile soil layer where the roots of most herbaceous plants are located?

Choose the appropriate category of general plant nutritional requirement for each element given below. -lithium

Mycorrhizae are crucial symbiotic associations between a fungus and the stems of a plant.