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PEST CONTROL DEMONSTRATION AND RESEARCH EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS



Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act -- Answer ✔✔ FIFRA
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"any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or
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l. mitigating and pest" -- Answer ✔✔ Pesticide l. l. l. l. l. l.




"any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or
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l. desiccant." -- Answer ✔✔ Pesticide l. l. l. l.




Pesticides that are generally more acutely toxic and inhibit a vital physiological process. --
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Broad spectrum insecticides that inhibit cholinesterase - an enzyme in animal nervous
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l. systems. -- Answer ✔✔ Organophosphates and carbamates
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Broad spectrum herbicides that inhibit a key reaction in photosynthesis. -- Answer ✔✔
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l. Triazines


There is a trend away from broad spectrum pesticides and toward ______ pesticides which
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l. are aimed at certain metabolic action sites, and sometimes, certain pest organisms. This
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l. almost always results in products with reduced risks toward pesticide handlers and non-
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target organisms. -- Answer ✔✔ specialized activity
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, A highly specific pesticide with minimal non-target organism impact is _____ which disrupt
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l. insect growth, egg production, and caste differentiation in some social insects. -- Answer
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l. ✔✔ Insect growth regulators
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A highly specific pesticide with minimal non-target organism impact is the insecticidal
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l. bacterium _____ which is highly selective against certain insect pests. -- Answer ✔✔
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l. Bacillus thuringiensis l.




A highly specific pesticide with minimal non-target organism impact is the selective _____
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l. which inhibits synthesis of vital amino acids only in certain plants. -- Answer ✔✔
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l. sulfonylurea herbicides l.




The movement, dissipation, degradation, and accumulation of pesticides in the biosphere. --
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Pesticides reach the soil through these three routes _____ -- Answer ✔✔ intentional
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Pesticides reach surface water through these six routes _____ -- Answer ✔✔ intentional
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l. application, spills, drift, contaminated precipitation, soil leaching, and surface runoff.
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Pesticide residues reach ground water through these two routes _____ -- Answer ✔✔
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l. leaching and negligent contamination of wells.
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The degradation and movement of a pesticide in soils depends on these four things _____ --
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l. Answer ✔✔ chemistry (reactivity/stability), physical properties (water solubility/volatility),
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l. and the biotic and abiotic factors in the soil.
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a phenomenon where pesticides are degraded more rapidly by populations of organisms
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l. who have previously been exposed to the pesticide. This is generally seen as a positive thing
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l. although it can happen sometimes so rapidly that it interferes with the pesticides ability to
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