ILLINOIS TURF PESTICIDE FINAL PAPER 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Formulation application rate - ✔✔The amount of formulation deposited per unit area
✔✔Frass - ✔✔Fecal matter produced and small clipped bits of vegetation caused by
insects
✔✔Fumigant - ✔✔A pesticide that functions as a gas. Many fumigants are very toxic to
humans
✔✔Fungicide - ✔✔A pesticide toxic to fungi
✔✔Fungus - ✔✔A small,typically multi celled organism.Some fungi attack plants and
cause plant diseases such as rust,smuts,mildews,wilts, and leaf spots
✔✔Granular application - ✔✔An apparatus consisting of a hopper,a metering
device,directing the granuals to the specific target area,such as row,bank,bed,or base of
plants
✔✔Green - ✔✔The shortly mowed and highly maintained area of grass around a golf-
course hole
✔✔Ground cover - ✔✔Plants used to cover the soil in areas where mowing is
impracticable
✔✔Hazard - ✔✔The potential for injury that can result from the result from the use of
pesticide.A hazard is composed of a pesticide toxicity and the likelihood of exposure to
that pesticide
✔✔Herbicide - ✔✔A chemical used to control or suppress plants by severely
interrupting their normal growth processes
✔✔Hollow-cone pattern - ✔✔Spray deposited in a circle with no droplets in the center
✔✔Host - ✔✔Any plant or animal that is attacked by a parasite or parasite insect
✔✔Hydraulic agitation - ✔✔a mixing method in which some solution circulates through
the pump and back into the tank.
✔✔Inert ingredients - ✔✔In a pesticide formulation,the portion( Such a
water,carrier,adjuvant,and propellant,)that has no direct effect on the targeted pests.
, ✔✔Infectious plant disease - ✔✔A disease caused by a pathogen that multiplies and
can be transmitted from plant to plant
✔✔Insect - ✔✔Small animal,usually having six walking legs,wings,and three body
divisions in the adult stage
✔✔Insecticide - ✔✔A pesticide used to prevent, destroys,repel,mitigate,or attract
insects and their relatives
✔✔Integrated pest management - ✔✔An organized program in which the best
management methods available are used to keep pest populations below the economic
or aesthetic injury level while avoiding adverse effects on humans,wildlife,and the
environment
✔✔Inversion - ✔✔The atmospheric condition in which the air near the soil surface is
cooler than the air above it.this condition results in very little air movements.
✔✔Label - ✔✔A printed statement affixed to the pesticide container by the
manufacturer ,listing the product information,precautionary statements,and directions for
use,according to law,the label is legal document and must be strictly followed
✔✔Larva - ✔✔The immature or worm stage(caterpillar,maggot,grub) of an insect that
passes through four stages (egg,larva,pupa,adult) in its development
✔✔Lesions - ✔✔A localized area of diseased tissue
✔✔Lethal concentration - ✔✔The amount of inhaled pesticide that kills 50% of a test-
animal population
✔✔Ligule - ✔✔A thin membrane or row of hairs on the inner side of a grass leaf at the
juncture of the leaf blade and leaf sheath(collar region)
✔✔Local penetrate - ✔✔Pesticides that is absorbed into the immediate area of
application but not trans-located far from the site of uptake.It serves to prevent the
development of disease at ans near the site of absorption
✔✔Mechanical agitation - ✔✔A mixing method using paddles
✔✔Melting-out - ✔✔A fungal disease characterized by the appearance of dark leaf
spots followed by the killing of irregular areas of turf
✔✔Micron - ✔✔Unit used to measure spray droplets,1 micron is equal to 1/25,000 of an
inch
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Formulation application rate - ✔✔The amount of formulation deposited per unit area
✔✔Frass - ✔✔Fecal matter produced and small clipped bits of vegetation caused by
insects
✔✔Fumigant - ✔✔A pesticide that functions as a gas. Many fumigants are very toxic to
humans
✔✔Fungicide - ✔✔A pesticide toxic to fungi
✔✔Fungus - ✔✔A small,typically multi celled organism.Some fungi attack plants and
cause plant diseases such as rust,smuts,mildews,wilts, and leaf spots
✔✔Granular application - ✔✔An apparatus consisting of a hopper,a metering
device,directing the granuals to the specific target area,such as row,bank,bed,or base of
plants
✔✔Green - ✔✔The shortly mowed and highly maintained area of grass around a golf-
course hole
✔✔Ground cover - ✔✔Plants used to cover the soil in areas where mowing is
impracticable
✔✔Hazard - ✔✔The potential for injury that can result from the result from the use of
pesticide.A hazard is composed of a pesticide toxicity and the likelihood of exposure to
that pesticide
✔✔Herbicide - ✔✔A chemical used to control or suppress plants by severely
interrupting their normal growth processes
✔✔Hollow-cone pattern - ✔✔Spray deposited in a circle with no droplets in the center
✔✔Host - ✔✔Any plant or animal that is attacked by a parasite or parasite insect
✔✔Hydraulic agitation - ✔✔a mixing method in which some solution circulates through
the pump and back into the tank.
✔✔Inert ingredients - ✔✔In a pesticide formulation,the portion( Such a
water,carrier,adjuvant,and propellant,)that has no direct effect on the targeted pests.
, ✔✔Infectious plant disease - ✔✔A disease caused by a pathogen that multiplies and
can be transmitted from plant to plant
✔✔Insect - ✔✔Small animal,usually having six walking legs,wings,and three body
divisions in the adult stage
✔✔Insecticide - ✔✔A pesticide used to prevent, destroys,repel,mitigate,or attract
insects and their relatives
✔✔Integrated pest management - ✔✔An organized program in which the best
management methods available are used to keep pest populations below the economic
or aesthetic injury level while avoiding adverse effects on humans,wildlife,and the
environment
✔✔Inversion - ✔✔The atmospheric condition in which the air near the soil surface is
cooler than the air above it.this condition results in very little air movements.
✔✔Label - ✔✔A printed statement affixed to the pesticide container by the
manufacturer ,listing the product information,precautionary statements,and directions for
use,according to law,the label is legal document and must be strictly followed
✔✔Larva - ✔✔The immature or worm stage(caterpillar,maggot,grub) of an insect that
passes through four stages (egg,larva,pupa,adult) in its development
✔✔Lesions - ✔✔A localized area of diseased tissue
✔✔Lethal concentration - ✔✔The amount of inhaled pesticide that kills 50% of a test-
animal population
✔✔Ligule - ✔✔A thin membrane or row of hairs on the inner side of a grass leaf at the
juncture of the leaf blade and leaf sheath(collar region)
✔✔Local penetrate - ✔✔Pesticides that is absorbed into the immediate area of
application but not trans-located far from the site of uptake.It serves to prevent the
development of disease at ans near the site of absorption
✔✔Mechanical agitation - ✔✔A mixing method using paddles
✔✔Melting-out - ✔✔A fungal disease characterized by the appearance of dark leaf
spots followed by the killing of irregular areas of turf
✔✔Micron - ✔✔Unit used to measure spray droplets,1 micron is equal to 1/25,000 of an
inch
