Write down your choice for each of the following 8 questions, then
click on DONE to see the answers and find your score.
1. Mulching can benefit plants by:
- Retaining soil moisture
- Keeping roots cool
- Preventing "frost heaves"
- All of the above
- None of the above
2. Ladybugs are beneficial in the garden because:
- They're fragrant
- They eat aphids
- They winter under fallen leaves and provide early spring food for
birds
- All of the above
- None of the above
3. The proper time to prune a tree is:
- Mid-winter, when the tree is dormant
- Late fall, when the leaves turn
- Spring, when new growth occurs
- All of the above
- None of the above
4. A weed is:
- Any plant with an aggressive growth habit
- Any plant that wasn't planted deliberately
- Any plant that isn't wanted in a particular place
- All of the above
- None of the above
5. The pesticide DDT was banned in the U.S. after the publication of this book, which described its negative human and environmental health effects:
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- None of the above
6. An ecosystem is:
- A fiscally balanced investment strategy
- An interrelated community of plants and animals
- A landscape that has evolved to a stable state
- None of the above
7. An allelopathic plant:
- Emits chemicals that repel other plants or inhibit their growth
- Twines around other plants, strangling them
- Contains pigments that cannot be seen by humans but act as a
beacon to certain insects
- None of the above
8. Ecological Economics is:
- A policy of investing in environmentally sound companies and
industries
- The study of how to value ecological factors in standard economic
accounting schemes such as cost-benefit analyses
- The process of adjusting the supply of natural resources to fit
the demand
- None of the above
Bonus Question (for Extra
Credit) |
Match the following quotations in the first list below to their
respective authors in the second list. Each quotation matches one and
only one author.
Quotations
- "...a garden one can wander through is always more thrilling than
a garden one must simply stand before and stare at."
- "The wildest place on earth, it is here, in the human heart."
- "The biggest enemy of wildlife is the obsessively tidy gardener."
Authors
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