Exam 36: Plant Nutrition

Nutrients clearly limit the growth of plants. Explain four ways that plants have adapted to increase access to nutrients and what limits the association from becoming more common.

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

Which of the following does NOT improve a plant's access to particular nutrients?

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

Which soil region tends to accumulate mineral ions but relatively little organic matter, and is generally penetrated by mature tree roots?

Which of the following statements does NOT describe an essential element?

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

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?

Describe how losing leaves in the autumn can affect plant nutrient requirements, and how plants handle this issue.

What are animals trapped and digested by "carnivorous" plants such as the cobra lily used as?

What are root nodules?

What is cation exchange in plant roots?

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

In temperate forests, many mosses and lichens are epiphytes.

Which of the following is most important for retaining water in soil for use by plants?

In which soils do most plants do best?

Studies of a soybean plant (Glycine max) and the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum have shown that after the bacteria enter the root, cells of the root cortex begin to divide. What is this a response to?

What is a soil with roughly equal amounts of humus, silt, clay, and sand called?

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

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