CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE

SAN JOSE, PILI, CAMARINES SUR

COLLEGE OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
LABORATORY EXERCISE NO. 1

DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGIES
AGRICULTURE - the science, art, or occupation concerned with
cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising
livestock; farming.
AGRONOMY - the science of soil management and the production
of field crops.
ANNUAL PLANT - is a plant that completes its life cycle, from
germination to the production of seed, within one year, and then
dies.
BIENNIAL - is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its
biological lifecycle.
BOTANY - the science of plants; the branch of biology that deals
with plant life.
BROADCAST SEEDING - is a method of seeding that involves
scattering seed, by hand or mechanically, over a relatively large
area.
CLIMATE The Weather conditions prevailing in an area in general
or over a long period.
COTYLEDON - is a significant part of the embryo within the seed of
a plant.
COVER CROPS - is a type of plant grown to suppress weeds, help
build and improve soil, and control diseases and pests.
CROSS FERTILIZATION - fertilization in which the gametes are
produced by separate individuals or sometimes by individuals of
different kinds
CROWN - refers to the totality of the plant's aboveground parts,
including stems, leaves, and reproductive structures.
CUTTING - a stem, leaf, or root that is cut from a plant and used to
grow a new plant.
FERTILITY - the quality of being able to produce young or fruit.
FORAGES - grasses and other plants that are eaten by animals.
GREEN MANURE - a growing crop, such as clover or grass, that is
plowed under the soil to improve fertility.
HARROW - A farm implement consisting of a heavy frame with
sharp teeth or upright disks, used to break up and even off plowed
ground.
HORTICULTURE - The science or art of cultivating fruits,
vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants.
HUMID CLIMATE - a climate with an excess of moisture, in which
the solar heat received is insufficient to evaporate all moisture
occurring in the form of precipitation.
HYBRID - the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds,
varieties, species, or genera, especially as produced through
human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics.

INSECTISIDE - a substance or preparation used for killing insects.

LEGUME - A pod of such a plant, which splits into two valves with
the seeds attached to one edge of the valves.
MELLOW SOIL A soil easily work and penetrated.
NODE - is the area of a plant's stem from which the leaves grow.
NUTRIENTS - any of the mineral substances that are absorbed by
the roots of plants for nourishment.
PASTURE - land covered with grass or herbage and grazed by or
suitable for grazing by livestock.
POLLINATION - the transfer of pollen from the anther to the
stigma.
PREEMERGENCE - occurring or applied before the emergence of a
plant from the soil.
POSTEMERGENCE - occurring or applied after emergence of a plant
from the soil and before full growth.
RILL EROSION - Removal of soil by running water with formation of
shallow channels that can be smoothed out completely by normal
tillage.
SEEDING - any propagative part of a plant, including tubers, bulbs,
etc., especially as preserved for growing a new crop.
SILAGE - fodder converted into succulent feed for livestock
through processes of anaerobic acid fermentation
SOIL EROSION - Removal of topsoil faster than the soil forming
processes can replace it, due to natural, animal, and human
activity (over grazing, over cultivation, forest clearing, mechanized
farming, etc.). Soil erosion results in land infertility and leads to
desertification and devastating flooding.
SOWING - to scatter seed over (land, earth, etc.) for the purpose of
growth.