Idaho Pesticide Applicator Exam
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Regulates production, transport, sale, use, and disposal of pesticides
FIFRA Section 3 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Full federal registration
FIFRA section 24c - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Special local need (application site or
alternate control technique not on label)
FIFRA Section 18 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency exemption (pest with no
current control)
, the federal worker protection standard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Reduce risk of
employee exposure to pesticides
Clean Water Act - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(CWA, 1972) set maximum permissible
amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways; aims to
make surface waters swimmable and fishable
Pesticide Hazard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Risk = toxicity x exposure
Phytotoxicity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Injury or damage to a sensitive plant caused
by a chemical exposure
Adjuvant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Product added to spray tank to assist pesticide
in application
Emulsifiable Concentrate (EC) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pesticide formulation
produced by mixing an active ingredient and an emulsifying agent in a
suitable petroleum solvent. When combined with water, a milky emulsion is
usually formed. Easy to handle and easy on equipment.
Flowables (F or AF) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Insoluble solid active ingredients
ground and mixed with liquid. Forms a suspension (slurry) when ready to
use. Requires agitation and leaves residue.
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Regulates production, transport, sale, use, and disposal of pesticides
FIFRA Section 3 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Full federal registration
FIFRA section 24c - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Special local need (application site or
alternate control technique not on label)
FIFRA Section 18 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency exemption (pest with no
current control)
, the federal worker protection standard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Reduce risk of
employee exposure to pesticides
Clean Water Act - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(CWA, 1972) set maximum permissible
amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways; aims to
make surface waters swimmable and fishable
Pesticide Hazard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Risk = toxicity x exposure
Phytotoxicity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Injury or damage to a sensitive plant caused
by a chemical exposure
Adjuvant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Product added to spray tank to assist pesticide
in application
Emulsifiable Concentrate (EC) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A pesticide formulation
produced by mixing an active ingredient and an emulsifying agent in a
suitable petroleum solvent. When combined with water, a milky emulsion is
usually formed. Easy to handle and easy on equipment.
Flowables (F or AF) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Insoluble solid active ingredients
ground and mixed with liquid. Forms a suspension (slurry) when ready to
use. Requires agitation and leaves residue.
