1. 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt Terms & Definitions Chemical Elements Soil pH Nutrient Cycle

2. What is a Symptom?

3. A visual sign or condition that results from a deficiency: symptoms aids in diagnosing a deficiency.

4. What is Soil Fertility

5. Is the ability of a soil to provide nutrients for plant growth.

6. What is a plant condition where an essential nutrient is not sufficiently available?

7. Deficiency

8. What is a Analysis?

9. Percentage water soluble content of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) expressed as P2O5, and potassium (K) expressed as K2O in the fertilizer.

10. The fertilizer is placed in the soil in narrow bands 2 to 6 inches from the seed is what?

11. Band Application

12. What is an Essential Nutrient?

13. Element necessary for plant growth and reproduction.

14. What are the 3 primary chemical elements?

15. Nitrogen (N) Phosphorus (P) Potassium (K)

16. Why does clay hold nutrients well?

17. Because it is negatively charged.

18. True Or False The term for negatively charged ions are cations.

19. False Anion

20. What are the needed nutrients in the plant processes of photosynthesis of photosynthesis and respiration?

21. Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen

22. What is Soil pH?

23. The measure of acidity or alkalinity of the soil.

24. What is a neutral pH?

25. 7.0

26. Most essential elements for plant growth are available to most plants when the soil pH is between what?

27. 5.5 and 7.0

28. True Or False The pH is determined by the concentration of hydrogen(H+) ions and hydroxyl ions (OH-) in the soil solution.

29. True

30. What indicates a very acid solution, and what is considered slightly acid?

31. 1.0, 6.0

32. What is the nutrient cycle?

33. Recycling of essential elements used by plants.