GPCA TEST STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
What do you do for a large chemical Spill? - Answer-A. Absorbent Material
A pesticide is what? - Answer-a. a substance used for destroying insects or other
organisms similar
How do you properly dispose of extra pesticide? - Answer--Apply around exterior of the
last account of the day to use up the pesticide as per label instructs.
-add the left over pesticide to a storage or disposal container
Bait is the best way to treat for cockroaches - Answer-10. Bait is the best way to treat
for cockroaches
What is the purpose of IRAC - Answer-a. insecticide Resistance Action Committee: a
group of scientists that maintain a list of all registered insecticide active ingredients.
What is a spot treatment? - Answer-a. 1 ft by 1 ft
YOU NEED TO KNOW ALL OF THE IPM PROCESSES - Answer--Exclusion: reduce or
eliminate the ways pests can enter into a building. Stopping entrance points
-Habitat Modification: reducing sources of food and living area where pests currently
reside
-Sanitation: cleaning up and removing items pests can use as food
-Repellents: using chemicals to prevent pests from getting close to an area
-mechanical/physical: fly swatters, air curtains, heat and traps.
-Pesticides: application of materials defined by US EPA
Application rate when treating perimeter of earth filled Porch? - Answer-2 gallons per 10
ft
Hallow Block Wall Application Rate - Answer-2 Gallons per 10 ft
Objective of Soil Termite Application? - Answer-a. To get chemical between termites
and the wood you are protecting
What pest is treated by Fogging - Answer-a. Flying
, Before Applying pesticide - Answer-a. Put on PPE
read the definition of a fly and know about its metamorphosis and when it flies blest -
Answer-
What is molt? - Answer-a. When a animal Sheds its skin
Learn about wood decay fungus - Answer-a. They feed on structural components of
wood and required moisture to be able to digest lumber, the fungi then eat away wood.
treatment: If moisture level is lowered the fungi will not feed on wood.
What is instar? - Answer-a. The exoskeleton forces insects to grow in stages or
increments called "instars"
All insects have what? - Answer-a. food, water and harborage
Anthropods have what? - Answer-a. central nervous system
-striated skeletal muscles
-Bilateral symmetry
Tick: - Answer-a. Need Blood meal for each stage
Bedbug - Answer-a. Nocturnal with an incomplete metamorphosis
Roaches - Answer-a. Feed on feces of adults
What is leaching ? - Answer-a. A way that pesticides move through soil with water.
occurs when water moves down through the soil and pesticides dissolve. dangerous
because ground water is most of our drinking water
What is most harmful to pollenators - Answer-a. Dust
Chemical Degradation - Answer-a. exposure to UV light
Leaching is worse then? - Answer-a. Options are something about sandy surface close
to an aquifer or far away from aquifer
Compressed Air Cleaners - Answer-a. Cleaned Weekly
IPM reduces risk of contamination - Answer-a. Proper id of pest
Use lower pressure to - Answer-a. Avoid Backlash
AND ANSWERS
What do you do for a large chemical Spill? - Answer-A. Absorbent Material
A pesticide is what? - Answer-a. a substance used for destroying insects or other
organisms similar
How do you properly dispose of extra pesticide? - Answer--Apply around exterior of the
last account of the day to use up the pesticide as per label instructs.
-add the left over pesticide to a storage or disposal container
Bait is the best way to treat for cockroaches - Answer-10. Bait is the best way to treat
for cockroaches
What is the purpose of IRAC - Answer-a. insecticide Resistance Action Committee: a
group of scientists that maintain a list of all registered insecticide active ingredients.
What is a spot treatment? - Answer-a. 1 ft by 1 ft
YOU NEED TO KNOW ALL OF THE IPM PROCESSES - Answer--Exclusion: reduce or
eliminate the ways pests can enter into a building. Stopping entrance points
-Habitat Modification: reducing sources of food and living area where pests currently
reside
-Sanitation: cleaning up and removing items pests can use as food
-Repellents: using chemicals to prevent pests from getting close to an area
-mechanical/physical: fly swatters, air curtains, heat and traps.
-Pesticides: application of materials defined by US EPA
Application rate when treating perimeter of earth filled Porch? - Answer-2 gallons per 10
ft
Hallow Block Wall Application Rate - Answer-2 Gallons per 10 ft
Objective of Soil Termite Application? - Answer-a. To get chemical between termites
and the wood you are protecting
What pest is treated by Fogging - Answer-a. Flying
, Before Applying pesticide - Answer-a. Put on PPE
read the definition of a fly and know about its metamorphosis and when it flies blest -
Answer-
What is molt? - Answer-a. When a animal Sheds its skin
Learn about wood decay fungus - Answer-a. They feed on structural components of
wood and required moisture to be able to digest lumber, the fungi then eat away wood.
treatment: If moisture level is lowered the fungi will not feed on wood.
What is instar? - Answer-a. The exoskeleton forces insects to grow in stages or
increments called "instars"
All insects have what? - Answer-a. food, water and harborage
Anthropods have what? - Answer-a. central nervous system
-striated skeletal muscles
-Bilateral symmetry
Tick: - Answer-a. Need Blood meal for each stage
Bedbug - Answer-a. Nocturnal with an incomplete metamorphosis
Roaches - Answer-a. Feed on feces of adults
What is leaching ? - Answer-a. A way that pesticides move through soil with water.
occurs when water moves down through the soil and pesticides dissolve. dangerous
because ground water is most of our drinking water
What is most harmful to pollenators - Answer-a. Dust
Chemical Degradation - Answer-a. exposure to UV light
Leaching is worse then? - Answer-a. Options are something about sandy surface close
to an aquifer or far away from aquifer
Compressed Air Cleaners - Answer-a. Cleaned Weekly
IPM reduces risk of contamination - Answer-a. Proper id of pest
Use lower pressure to - Answer-a. Avoid Backlash
