Pesticide Applicators License 2025/2026
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Action threshold - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the pest level at which some type of pest
management action must be taken
Bioaccumulation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The accumulation of toxic substances,
such as pesticides, or other organic chemicals in an organism
Biomagnification - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency for certain pesticides to
progressively become more concentrated in each type of organism when
moving from the bottom to the top organism within a food chain
Contact pesticide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pesticide that is not absorbed
systemically by treated plants or animals. These pesticides must directly
touch the pest or a site the pest frequents to be effective
Economic threshold - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level where the economic losses
caused by pest damage, if the pest population continued to grow, would be
greater than the cost of controlling the pests
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,Eradication - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔One of the three primary pest control goals
that refers to the total elimination of a pest from a designated area
Integrated Pest management - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The coordinated use of pest
and environmental information and available pest control methods to
prevent unacceptable levels of damage by the most economical means
with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment.
Key pest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pest that causes major damage on a regular
basis
Mode of Action - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔How the pesticide works - specific
system(s) in the pest that are affected by the pesticide
Occasional pest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pest that causes damage only once in
a while because of its life cycle or environmental influences, or as a result
of human activities
Persistance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔length of time a pesticide remains active to
control pests
Pesticide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Any material that is applied to plants, the soil,
water, harvested crops, structures, clothing and furnishings, or animals to
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, kill, attract, repel or regulate or interrupt the growth and mating of pests or
to regulate plant growth
Pesticide resistance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability of an insect, fungus, weed,
rodent, or other pest to tolerate a pesticide that once controlled it
Prevention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔one of the three primary pest control goals that
strives to inhibit the onset of a pest outbreak
Quarantine - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔regulatory method to control the introduction
and dissemination of pests into new areas
Residual pesticide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pesticide that controls pests for weeks,
months or even years
Secondary pest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a pest that becomes a problem when a
key pest is controlled or eliminated
Selectivity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the degree to which a pesticide will kill a
certain type of pest
Suppression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔one of the three primary pest control goals
that attempts to reduce pest populations to a tolerable level or to a point
below the economic injury level
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Exam Questions and Detailed Answers |
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Action threshold - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the pest level at which some type of pest
management action must be taken
Bioaccumulation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The accumulation of toxic substances,
such as pesticides, or other organic chemicals in an organism
Biomagnification - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The tendency for certain pesticides to
progressively become more concentrated in each type of organism when
moving from the bottom to the top organism within a food chain
Contact pesticide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pesticide that is not absorbed
systemically by treated plants or animals. These pesticides must directly
touch the pest or a site the pest frequents to be effective
Economic threshold - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level where the economic losses
caused by pest damage, if the pest population continued to grow, would be
greater than the cost of controlling the pests
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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,Eradication - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔One of the three primary pest control goals
that refers to the total elimination of a pest from a designated area
Integrated Pest management - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The coordinated use of pest
and environmental information and available pest control methods to
prevent unacceptable levels of damage by the most economical means
with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment.
Key pest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pest that causes major damage on a regular
basis
Mode of Action - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔How the pesticide works - specific
system(s) in the pest that are affected by the pesticide
Occasional pest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pest that causes damage only once in
a while because of its life cycle or environmental influences, or as a result
of human activities
Persistance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔length of time a pesticide remains active to
control pests
Pesticide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Any material that is applied to plants, the soil,
water, harvested crops, structures, clothing and furnishings, or animals to
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, kill, attract, repel or regulate or interrupt the growth and mating of pests or
to regulate plant growth
Pesticide resistance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability of an insect, fungus, weed,
rodent, or other pest to tolerate a pesticide that once controlled it
Prevention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔one of the three primary pest control goals that
strives to inhibit the onset of a pest outbreak
Quarantine - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔regulatory method to control the introduction
and dissemination of pests into new areas
Residual pesticide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pesticide that controls pests for weeks,
months or even years
Secondary pest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a pest that becomes a problem when a
key pest is controlled or eliminated
Selectivity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the degree to which a pesticide will kill a
certain type of pest
Suppression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔one of the three primary pest control goals
that attempts to reduce pest populations to a tolerable level or to a point
below the economic injury level
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