Pesticide Laws and Regulations UPDATED
SCRIPT 2026 PRACTICE SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
● Animal. Answer: a vertebrate or invertebrate species, including man,
other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish
● Antidote. Answer: a practical treatment used in preventing or lessening
ill effects from poisoning, including first aid
● Application of a herbicide. Answer: the spreading of a herbicide on
real property having a continuous boundary line
● Defoliant. Answer: a substance or mixture of substances intended to
cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without
abscisson
● Department. Answer: means Department of Agriculture
● Desiccant. Answer: a substance or mixture of substances intended to
artificially accelerate the drying of plant tissue
, ● Device. Answer: an instrument or contrivance, other than a firearm,
that is used to trap, destroy, repel, or mitigate a pest or other form of
plant or animal life, other than man or bacteria, virus, or other
microorganism on or in living man or other living animals. The term
does not include equipment sold separately from a pesticide
● Distribute. Answer: offer for sale, hold for sale, sell, barter, or supply
● Environment. Answer: includes water, air, land, plants, man, and other
animals in or on water, air, land, and the interrelationships that exist
among them.
● Equipment. Answer: any type of ground, water, or aerial equipment or
contrivance employing motorized, mechanical, or pressurized power and
used to apply a pesticide to land or to anything that may be inhabiting or
growing or stored on or in the land. The term does not include a
pressurized hand sized household apparatus used to apply a pesticide or
any equipment, or contrivance for which the person applying the
pesticide is the source of power or energy used in making the pesticide
application.
● FIFRA. Answer: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(7 U.S.C. Section 136 et seq.)
● Fungus. Answer: a non-chlorophyll bearing thallophyte, including
rust, smut, mildew, mold, yeast, or bacteria, but not including a non-
SCRIPT 2026 PRACTICE SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
● Animal. Answer: a vertebrate or invertebrate species, including man,
other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish
● Antidote. Answer: a practical treatment used in preventing or lessening
ill effects from poisoning, including first aid
● Application of a herbicide. Answer: the spreading of a herbicide on
real property having a continuous boundary line
● Defoliant. Answer: a substance or mixture of substances intended to
cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without
abscisson
● Department. Answer: means Department of Agriculture
● Desiccant. Answer: a substance or mixture of substances intended to
artificially accelerate the drying of plant tissue
, ● Device. Answer: an instrument or contrivance, other than a firearm,
that is used to trap, destroy, repel, or mitigate a pest or other form of
plant or animal life, other than man or bacteria, virus, or other
microorganism on or in living man or other living animals. The term
does not include equipment sold separately from a pesticide
● Distribute. Answer: offer for sale, hold for sale, sell, barter, or supply
● Environment. Answer: includes water, air, land, plants, man, and other
animals in or on water, air, land, and the interrelationships that exist
among them.
● Equipment. Answer: any type of ground, water, or aerial equipment or
contrivance employing motorized, mechanical, or pressurized power and
used to apply a pesticide to land or to anything that may be inhabiting or
growing or stored on or in the land. The term does not include a
pressurized hand sized household apparatus used to apply a pesticide or
any equipment, or contrivance for which the person applying the
pesticide is the source of power or energy used in making the pesticide
application.
● FIFRA. Answer: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(7 U.S.C. Section 136 et seq.)
● Fungus. Answer: a non-chlorophyll bearing thallophyte, including
rust, smut, mildew, mold, yeast, or bacteria, but not including a non-
