WI PAT Right-of-Way & Natural Areas (6.0) Exam

Right-of-way - ANSWER-An area of land used or adjacent to areas of access, transportation, or power. E.g. land for electric power lines, pipelines, railways, public roads Natural area - ANSWER-Land being preserved or restored and managed for its natural or native features. E.g. prairies What determines whether a given plant is a weed? - ANSWER-A weed is any unwanted plant. It interferes with what someone wants to do with the land the weed is growing on. What are the two main goals of weed management? - ANSWER-1. Minimize weed competition 2. Limit the weed's reproduction in order to manage the weed population in years to come. Distinguish grasses from broadleaf plants and herbaceous from woody plants - ANSWER-Grasses are considered monocots, meaning they have a single seed leaf, they also have narrow leaves with parallel veins and a fibrous root system. Broadleaf plants have two seed leaves and are therefore called dicots, they have broad leaves with veins that form net patterns. Broadleaf plants can be further classified into herbaceous and woody, where the woody plants have a thick layer of dense tissue called bark, which herbaceous plants lack. Describe the life cycles and propagation of annual, biennial, and perennial plants - ANSWER-Annual plants live for less than a year, they produce many seeds in one growing season, and then die. Summer annuals winter as seeds, and winter annuals winter as a low-growing plant, both summer and winter annuals are easiest to control when they are small. Biennial plants live for two growing seasons, they germinate from seed in the spring or summer and winter as a rosette of leaves.