ARKANSAS APPLICATOR TEST PAPER 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Particle Drift - ✔✔movement of spray droplets
✔✔GPM - ✔✔Gallons per minute
✔✔MPH - ✔✔Miles Per Hour
✔✔cultural control - ✔✔Growing a plant to be healthy through proper: fertility, planting,
plant selection, crop rotation, mulching, and mowing
✔✔Mechanical control - ✔✔Physically eliminating the pest by: cultivating, pruning,
hoeing and weed pulling, mowing, hand picking and burning and burying
✔✔biological control - ✔✔Utilizes living organisms such as: predators parasites
diseases
✔✔chemical control - ✔✔the use of pesticides to kill and prevent the spread of invasive
species
✔✔Fungi - ✔✔Spores spread by rain, wind, insect, seeds, equipment, soil, and water
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Single-called; usually enter through wounds in the plant
✔✔Viruses - ✔✔Genetic particles; commonly transmitted by insects and seed
✔✔Nematodes - ✔✔Microscopic roundworms; live on plant roots or other plant parts
✔✔complete life cycle - ✔✔egg > larva > pupa > adulthood
✔✔Incomplete Life Cycle - ✔✔Egg>nymph>adult
✔✔Annuals - ✔✔complete life cycle in one year
✔✔Summer Annuals - ✔✔Emerge in spring or summer and produce seed and die
before winter
✔✔Winter Annuals - ✔✔Emerge in the fall overwinter as seedlings and produce seed
and die early summer
✔✔Biennials - ✔✔Live for two years before dying
✔✔Perennials - ✔✔Live for more than 2 years
, ✔✔GPA - ✔✔Gallons per acre
✔✔selective pesticide - ✔✔a pesticide that targets a narrow range of organisms
✔✔Non-selective pesticide - ✔✔Pesticide that controls all related pests
✔✔Pump - ✔✔Equipment that moves liquid and creates pressure needed to spray the
pesticide solution
✔✔Tank - ✔✔Equipment that holds pesticide solution
✔✔Agitation - ✔✔Portion of solution that is circulated back to the tank
Mixes pesticides to prevent them from settling out to bottom of tank
✔✔back siphonage - ✔✔Maintain an air gap between end of hose and liquid in tank to
prevent
✔✔Dike - ✔✔Use a _______ to contain spills and rinsate
✔✔Spray application rate - ✔✔Amount of spray solution applied per unit area
✔✔formulation application rate - ✔✔Amount of formulation applied per unit area
✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act - ✔✔governs sale/use of
pesticides in the United States
Administered by the U.S. EPA
Pesticide registration
Pesticide classification
✔✔Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - ✔✔(1976) controls hazardous waste
with a cradle to grave system
Regulates management of hazardous waste included
Includes creation, transport, storage, and disposal of pesticides
✔✔Illinois Environmental Protection Agency - ✔✔Hazardous waste laws
Spills and illegal exposure
Laws regulating air, land, water quality
✔✔Illinois Department of Natural Resources - ✔✔Administers Illinois conservation laws
which protect most birds and mammals
✔✔Illinois Department of Public Health - ✔✔Administers the Illinois Structural Pest
Control Act
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Particle Drift - ✔✔movement of spray droplets
✔✔GPM - ✔✔Gallons per minute
✔✔MPH - ✔✔Miles Per Hour
✔✔cultural control - ✔✔Growing a plant to be healthy through proper: fertility, planting,
plant selection, crop rotation, mulching, and mowing
✔✔Mechanical control - ✔✔Physically eliminating the pest by: cultivating, pruning,
hoeing and weed pulling, mowing, hand picking and burning and burying
✔✔biological control - ✔✔Utilizes living organisms such as: predators parasites
diseases
✔✔chemical control - ✔✔the use of pesticides to kill and prevent the spread of invasive
species
✔✔Fungi - ✔✔Spores spread by rain, wind, insect, seeds, equipment, soil, and water
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Single-called; usually enter through wounds in the plant
✔✔Viruses - ✔✔Genetic particles; commonly transmitted by insects and seed
✔✔Nematodes - ✔✔Microscopic roundworms; live on plant roots or other plant parts
✔✔complete life cycle - ✔✔egg > larva > pupa > adulthood
✔✔Incomplete Life Cycle - ✔✔Egg>nymph>adult
✔✔Annuals - ✔✔complete life cycle in one year
✔✔Summer Annuals - ✔✔Emerge in spring or summer and produce seed and die
before winter
✔✔Winter Annuals - ✔✔Emerge in the fall overwinter as seedlings and produce seed
and die early summer
✔✔Biennials - ✔✔Live for two years before dying
✔✔Perennials - ✔✔Live for more than 2 years
, ✔✔GPA - ✔✔Gallons per acre
✔✔selective pesticide - ✔✔a pesticide that targets a narrow range of organisms
✔✔Non-selective pesticide - ✔✔Pesticide that controls all related pests
✔✔Pump - ✔✔Equipment that moves liquid and creates pressure needed to spray the
pesticide solution
✔✔Tank - ✔✔Equipment that holds pesticide solution
✔✔Agitation - ✔✔Portion of solution that is circulated back to the tank
Mixes pesticides to prevent them from settling out to bottom of tank
✔✔back siphonage - ✔✔Maintain an air gap between end of hose and liquid in tank to
prevent
✔✔Dike - ✔✔Use a _______ to contain spills and rinsate
✔✔Spray application rate - ✔✔Amount of spray solution applied per unit area
✔✔formulation application rate - ✔✔Amount of formulation applied per unit area
✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act - ✔✔governs sale/use of
pesticides in the United States
Administered by the U.S. EPA
Pesticide registration
Pesticide classification
✔✔Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - ✔✔(1976) controls hazardous waste
with a cradle to grave system
Regulates management of hazardous waste included
Includes creation, transport, storage, and disposal of pesticides
✔✔Illinois Environmental Protection Agency - ✔✔Hazardous waste laws
Spills and illegal exposure
Laws regulating air, land, water quality
✔✔Illinois Department of Natural Resources - ✔✔Administers Illinois conservation laws
which protect most birds and mammals
✔✔Illinois Department of Public Health - ✔✔Administers the Illinois Structural Pest
Control Act
