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GEORGIA COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR
EXAMINATION COMPLETE VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS
YEAR JUST RELEASED
When does groundwater form?
a. When water moves below the earth's surface to fill
empty spaces in and around rocks and porous materials
like sand.
b. When water collects into lakes, ponds, and streams on
the surface of the ground
c. When more water is pumped from the ground than is
replenished by rain
d. When man's activities deform and rebuild the earth's
surface - Answer-A.
A plant has the following symptoms. Yellow bands form
around the leaf veins, and the plant is stunted. What is the
most likely cause for this disease?
a) Nematode
b) virus
c) fungus
d) bacterium - Answer-B.
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Why should we protect endangered species?
a. many medicines are derived from plants
b. genetic material of wild species is used to revitalize
domestic species
c. if a species becomes extinct, it can never be recovered
d. all of the above - Answer-d.
Which of the following is not an inorganic fungicide?
a. sulfur
b. copper oxide
c. captan
Bordeaux Mixture - Answer-c.
Fusarium wilt is often caused by an interaction between
what two organisms?
a. nematodes and fungi
b. nematodes and bacteria
c. nematodes and virus
d. all of the above - Answer-a
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Which of the following is a principle cause of the decline of
plant and animal species?
a. pesticides
b.legal hunting activities
c. pollution
d. loss of habitat - Answer-d
T/F Soil fumigants are the only pesticide option to control
nematodes. - Answer-f
Which of the following federal agencies regulates
pesticides to protect endangered species?
a. U.S. EPA
b. USDA
c. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
d. U.S. Forest Service - Answer-a
T/F A warm season annual is a plant that emerges from
seed in the fall and dies before summer. - Answer-f
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What types of annual broadleaf weeds are the most
difficult to control with preemergence herbicides?
a. small seeded broadleaf because the herbicide is less
likely to contact the seed.
b. large seeded broadleaf because the seeds may emerge
below the herbicide zone
c. broadleaves with burr seeds (cockleburr) because the
burrs provide protection from herbicides
d. broadleaves with any size seeds that emerge very near
the soil surface. - Answer-b
T/F Soil-applied preemergence herbicides are generally
more effective if they are applied after the weed seeds
germinate. - Answer-f
T/F A selective herbicide is one that is selected by the
Georgia Coorperative Extension Service because it will
control a wide range of broadleaf weeds and grasses. -
Answer-f
T/F Some contact herbicides may provide residual control
as well as contact kill. - Answer-t
GEORGIA COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR
EXAMINATION COMPLETE VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS
YEAR JUST RELEASED
When does groundwater form?
a. When water moves below the earth's surface to fill
empty spaces in and around rocks and porous materials
like sand.
b. When water collects into lakes, ponds, and streams on
the surface of the ground
c. When more water is pumped from the ground than is
replenished by rain
d. When man's activities deform and rebuild the earth's
surface - Answer-A.
A plant has the following symptoms. Yellow bands form
around the leaf veins, and the plant is stunted. What is the
most likely cause for this disease?
a) Nematode
b) virus
c) fungus
d) bacterium - Answer-B.
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Why should we protect endangered species?
a. many medicines are derived from plants
b. genetic material of wild species is used to revitalize
domestic species
c. if a species becomes extinct, it can never be recovered
d. all of the above - Answer-d.
Which of the following is not an inorganic fungicide?
a. sulfur
b. copper oxide
c. captan
Bordeaux Mixture - Answer-c.
Fusarium wilt is often caused by an interaction between
what two organisms?
a. nematodes and fungi
b. nematodes and bacteria
c. nematodes and virus
d. all of the above - Answer-a
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Which of the following is a principle cause of the decline of
plant and animal species?
a. pesticides
b.legal hunting activities
c. pollution
d. loss of habitat - Answer-d
T/F Soil fumigants are the only pesticide option to control
nematodes. - Answer-f
Which of the following federal agencies regulates
pesticides to protect endangered species?
a. U.S. EPA
b. USDA
c. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
d. U.S. Forest Service - Answer-a
T/F A warm season annual is a plant that emerges from
seed in the fall and dies before summer. - Answer-f
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What types of annual broadleaf weeds are the most
difficult to control with preemergence herbicides?
a. small seeded broadleaf because the herbicide is less
likely to contact the seed.
b. large seeded broadleaf because the seeds may emerge
below the herbicide zone
c. broadleaves with burr seeds (cockleburr) because the
burrs provide protection from herbicides
d. broadleaves with any size seeds that emerge very near
the soil surface. - Answer-b
T/F Soil-applied preemergence herbicides are generally
more effective if they are applied after the weed seeds
germinate. - Answer-f
T/F A selective herbicide is one that is selected by the
Georgia Coorperative Extension Service because it will
control a wide range of broadleaf weeds and grasses. -
Answer-f
T/F Some contact herbicides may provide residual control
as well as contact kill. - Answer-t
