Applicators (Pest Control) UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is a Pesticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Any substance or mixture of substances
intended fro preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest
What are pests? - CORRECT ANSWER - Insects, mice, and other animals.
Are Pesticides a risk to humans? - CORRECT ANSWER - Most create some risk to
humans, animals and the environment -- because they are designed to kill or affect living
organisms.
What are attractants? - CORRECT ANSWER - A pesticide used to attract pests.
E.G. Used to lure an insect/ rodent into a trap
What is a fumigant? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide that produces gases or vapors
intended to destroy pests in buildings or soil.
What is an insecticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide used to kill insects and other
arthropods
What is a miticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide used to kill mites that feed of
plants and animals.
What is an ovicide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide that kills the eggs of insects and
mites.
, What are foramens? - CORRECT ANSWER - Bio chemicals used to disrupt the mating
behavior of insects.
What are repellents? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticides that repel pests, including insects
and birds.
What are rodenticides? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide used to control mice and other
rodents.
What are Insect Growth Regulators? (Or IGRs) - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticides that
disrupt the molting, maturity from pupal stage to adult, or other life processes of insects.
E.G. Can make insects sterile or become deformed
What are pest control "Devices" - CORRECT ANSWER - Any instrument or contrivance
intended for -- trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest.
E.G. A mousetrap
Acute Toxicity is...? - CORRECT ANSWER - The toxic response resulting from a
SINGLE DOSE of, or exposure to, a pesticide
Chronic Toxicity is...? - CORRECT ANSWER - Toxic response from REPEATED
EXPOSURES to small doses of a pesticide over a long(er) period of time.
What is a hazard of pesticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - The danger of exposure to the
pesticide.
Can be: Oral, Dermal, or Inhalation.
What is Mutagenicity? - CORRECT ANSWER - The mutation or genetic change in a cell.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is a Pesticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Any substance or mixture of substances
intended fro preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest
What are pests? - CORRECT ANSWER - Insects, mice, and other animals.
Are Pesticides a risk to humans? - CORRECT ANSWER - Most create some risk to
humans, animals and the environment -- because they are designed to kill or affect living
organisms.
What are attractants? - CORRECT ANSWER - A pesticide used to attract pests.
E.G. Used to lure an insect/ rodent into a trap
What is a fumigant? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide that produces gases or vapors
intended to destroy pests in buildings or soil.
What is an insecticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide used to kill insects and other
arthropods
What is a miticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide used to kill mites that feed of
plants and animals.
What is an ovicide? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide that kills the eggs of insects and
mites.
, What are foramens? - CORRECT ANSWER - Bio chemicals used to disrupt the mating
behavior of insects.
What are repellents? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticides that repel pests, including insects
and birds.
What are rodenticides? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticide used to control mice and other
rodents.
What are Insect Growth Regulators? (Or IGRs) - CORRECT ANSWER - Pesticides that
disrupt the molting, maturity from pupal stage to adult, or other life processes of insects.
E.G. Can make insects sterile or become deformed
What are pest control "Devices" - CORRECT ANSWER - Any instrument or contrivance
intended for -- trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest.
E.G. A mousetrap
Acute Toxicity is...? - CORRECT ANSWER - The toxic response resulting from a
SINGLE DOSE of, or exposure to, a pesticide
Chronic Toxicity is...? - CORRECT ANSWER - Toxic response from REPEATED
EXPOSURES to small doses of a pesticide over a long(er) period of time.
What is a hazard of pesticide? - CORRECT ANSWER - The danger of exposure to the
pesticide.
Can be: Oral, Dermal, or Inhalation.
What is Mutagenicity? - CORRECT ANSWER - The mutation or genetic change in a cell.
