Georgia Pesticide Applicators Exam Question
and Correct answers
True - ✔✔To control wildlife, first you need to figure out why the animal is where it is
on your property instead of somewhere. (What is attracting it).
True - ✔✔More plants are killed in Georgia from too much water than from the lack
of water even during droughts.
Disorder - ✔✔Chlorosis of a plant (mottled yellowing of the leaves) is often the result
of a nutrient deficiency. This problem would be classified as a:
Not adapted to our climate - ✔✔An Alberta spruce planted in a landscape only lasted
a couple of years until it dies. What is the most likely reason it suffered and died:
Arachnids - ✔✔Spiders, tick, mites and scorpions are classified as:
Eastern Tent Caterpillar - ✔✔These insect pests weave a tent into the crotch of
cherry, crabapples, and other related trees in the spring:
Habitat Modification - ✔✔In controlling nuisance wildlife, removing brush piles, piles
of logs, mowing tall grass, and removing food sources is an example of what type of
wildlife control?
Compete with desirable plants for sunlight, moisture and nutrients
May exert allelopathic effects
, Reduce yields or quality of harvested product - ✔✔Weeds are harmful to desirable
plants because they:
10 - ✔✔To maintain your category 24 ornamental and turf pesticide applicator
license, you must get _______ re-certification credit hours every five years.
Large Power Driven Sprayers - ✔✔These type of sprayers are designed to distribute
liquid pesticides over a large area. Usually mounted on tractors and vehicles, but
sometimes self-propelled:
Large Patch - ✔✔A disease of warm season grasses that develops brown, yellow, or
orange patches that can get huge
Acute Effect - ✔✔Illnesses or injuries appearing immediately (or within 24 hours)
following pesticide exposure are called:
Complete Metamorphosis - ✔✔This type of insect metamorphosis consists of the
insect going through the stages of egg, larvae, pupae, and adult.
Caution - ✔✔This pesticide signal word means that it is slightly toxic or relatively
nontoxic.
Fireblight - ✔✔This disease causes young twigs and branches to die back from the
terminal end and may be burned or a deep rust colored. Branches may be bent,
resembling a shepherd's crook.
Flat Fan Nozzle - ✔✔These type of nozzles are popular for broadcast applications of
fertilizers and pesticides. They deliver uniform coverage across the sprayer and can be
achieved by proper spacing on the boom. It has a pattern fan shape with tapered edges.
and Correct answers
True - ✔✔To control wildlife, first you need to figure out why the animal is where it is
on your property instead of somewhere. (What is attracting it).
True - ✔✔More plants are killed in Georgia from too much water than from the lack
of water even during droughts.
Disorder - ✔✔Chlorosis of a plant (mottled yellowing of the leaves) is often the result
of a nutrient deficiency. This problem would be classified as a:
Not adapted to our climate - ✔✔An Alberta spruce planted in a landscape only lasted
a couple of years until it dies. What is the most likely reason it suffered and died:
Arachnids - ✔✔Spiders, tick, mites and scorpions are classified as:
Eastern Tent Caterpillar - ✔✔These insect pests weave a tent into the crotch of
cherry, crabapples, and other related trees in the spring:
Habitat Modification - ✔✔In controlling nuisance wildlife, removing brush piles, piles
of logs, mowing tall grass, and removing food sources is an example of what type of
wildlife control?
Compete with desirable plants for sunlight, moisture and nutrients
May exert allelopathic effects
, Reduce yields or quality of harvested product - ✔✔Weeds are harmful to desirable
plants because they:
10 - ✔✔To maintain your category 24 ornamental and turf pesticide applicator
license, you must get _______ re-certification credit hours every five years.
Large Power Driven Sprayers - ✔✔These type of sprayers are designed to distribute
liquid pesticides over a large area. Usually mounted on tractors and vehicles, but
sometimes self-propelled:
Large Patch - ✔✔A disease of warm season grasses that develops brown, yellow, or
orange patches that can get huge
Acute Effect - ✔✔Illnesses or injuries appearing immediately (or within 24 hours)
following pesticide exposure are called:
Complete Metamorphosis - ✔✔This type of insect metamorphosis consists of the
insect going through the stages of egg, larvae, pupae, and adult.
Caution - ✔✔This pesticide signal word means that it is slightly toxic or relatively
nontoxic.
Fireblight - ✔✔This disease causes young twigs and branches to die back from the
terminal end and may be burned or a deep rust colored. Branches may be bent,
resembling a shepherd's crook.
Flat Fan Nozzle - ✔✔These type of nozzles are popular for broadcast applications of
fertilizers and pesticides. They deliver uniform coverage across the sprayer and can be
achieved by proper spacing on the boom. It has a pattern fan shape with tapered edges.
