Botany/Quiz

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Grand-Reng (Belgium) shows the colours of the spring, including poppies. Credit: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT.

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Quiz[edit | edit source]

  

1 Which of the following are theoretical biological phenomena associated with botany?

Embryophyta
fungi
a dominant group
viruses
chloroplasts
chlorophyll
bacteria
plants
algae

2 True or False, The harvesting of crops is included in agriculture.

TRUE
FALSE

3 Which of the following is not a phenomenon associated with horticulture?

rose bushes
rosewood
water
gardens
trees
climate

4 Yes or No, A plant group characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary are the lichens.

Yes
No

5 Bryophytes as plants have what property?

they are subject to lunar eclipses
lichenology
protokaryotes
woodiness
they are livestock
non-vascular

6 Complete the text:

The scientific study of spores, pollen and particulate organic matter in rocks is called

.

7 When early hominins started to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, they began what?

8 Which types of rocky-object surfaces are amenable to large plants?

lava while its liquid
granite
dolomite strata
basalt columns
deserts
the deepest ocean trenches
the San Andreas fault
the top of the glaciers of Greenland
Siberia in the middle of winter
the Sahara in summer
a diamond mine
mud pots at Yellowstone National Park in the US
the Amazon rainforest
the Congo
the Appalachian mountains
Antarctica

9 Complete the text:

Biologists place plants between

and

genetically.

10 Which of the following is involved in botany more so than zoology?

the eukaryota
the mantle of the Earth
checking equations about complex systems
the advantages of chloroplasts
digging holes in the surface of the Moon
surface temperatures low enough to produce ice


Hypotheses[edit | edit source]

Main article: Hypotheses
  1. The first plant to survive on land probably did so at least 3 billion years b2k.

See also[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

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