Alabama Otpc Updated Questions And Correct Answers

ALABAMA OTPC UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Five mains groups of pests.
Answer:
1. Insects
2. Snails and slugs
3. Vertebrates
4. Plant disease agents
5. Weeds

Question:
2. Pest
Answer:
living things that compete with human beings for food, fiber, and space or attach humans directly

Question:
3. Hosts
Answer:
living plants or animals some pests depend on for survival

Question:
4. Name two iden-tifying character-istics common to all adult insects
Answer:
Six jointed legs Three body regions

Question:
5. Two characteris-tics which aid in distinguishing one insect from another
Answer:
Wings Mouthparts

Question:
6. Explain the dif-ferences be-tween the basic life cycles of in-sects
Answer:
Some change only in size as they develop Some change form slightly Some change completely in
form and size

Question:
7. Gradual Life Cy-cle
Answer:
Eggs - Nymph - Adult Also referred to "Simple"

Question:
8. Complete Life Cy-cle

,Answer:
Egg - Larva - Pupa - Adult

Question:
9. Three character-istics of mites, ticks and spiders
Answer:
Eight jointed legs Two body regions Lack wings

Question:
10. List four types of vertebrate an-imals that can be pests
Answer:
Fish Reptiles Amphibians Birds

Question:
11. List types of living organisms that cause plant diseases
Answer:
Fungi Bacteria Viruses Nematodes

Question:
12. List three main ways a plant re-sponds to infec-tion by a plant disease agent
Answer:
Overdevelopment of tissue Underdevelopment of tissue Death of tissue

Question:
13. Define weeds
Answer:
Weeds are plants growing where thay are not wanted or in a way that is not desireable

Question:
14. Characteristics of herbaceous grasses
Answer:
One leaf as the emerge Leaves narrow and upright; veins parallel Fibrous root system Growing point
sheathed and under soil surface Growing point gradually moves above soil as plant matures

Question:
15. Chracteristics of herbaceous broadleaves
Answer:
Two leaves as they emerge Leaves broad with net-like veins Exposed growing points at end of each
stem Perennial broadleaved plant may have growing points on roots and stems below soil

Question:
16. Chracteristics of woody plants
Answer:
brush and shrubs having several stems and less that 10 feet tall Trees - single stem and greater than 10
feet tall

Question:
17. Annuals

, Answer:
complete life cycle in less than 12 months

Question:
18. Explain the devel-opmental stages of plants
Answer:
Seedkubg - small with seed leaves present Vegetative rapid growth of stems, roots, and foliage. Water
and nutrient uptake rapid Seed production - little or no growth; produces fruit. Water and nutrient
uptake and movement slow and directed to reproductive parts Maturity - little or no growthe.
Movement of water and nutrients slow.

Question:
19. Biennials
Answer:
complete life cycle in 2 years

Question:
20. Perennials
Answer:
live more than 2 years; ma live indefinitely

Question:
21. Winter vs. Sum-mer Annuals
Answer:
Winter annuals germinate in the fall, examples: cheat chickweed, henbit, little barley, annual
bluegrass and wild mustard. Spring annuals germinate in the spring, examples: ragweed, crabgrass,
partridge pea, pigweed and spotted spurge

Question:
22. Examples of Bi-ennials
Answer:
thistle, common mullein, wild carrot, and false dandelion

Question:
23. Simple Perenni-als
Answer:
spread by seed, crown buds, and cut root segments - examples are curly dock, dandelion, plantain,
spider wort and white heath aster

Question:
24. Creeping Peren-nials
Answer:
spread vegetatively with stolons or rhizomes as well as seeds - examples bermudagrass, big bluestem,
milkweed, horsenettle, horsetail, Johnsongrass, poison ivy and Virginia creeper

Question:
25. Bulbous perenni-als