ALABAMA OTPS EXAM ACTUAL EXAM
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Pest. Answer: living things that compete with human beings for food,
fiber, and space or attach humans directly
⩥ Hosts. Answer: living plants or animals some pests depend on for
survival
⩥ Name two identifying characteristics common to all adult insects.
Answer: Six jointed legs
Three body regions
⩥ Two characteristics which aid in distinguishing one insect from
another. Answer: Wings
Mouthparts
⩥ Explain the differences between the basic life cycles of insects.
Answer: Some change only in size as they develop
Some change form slightly
Some change completely in form and size
,⩥ Gradual Life Cycle. Answer: Eggs - Nymph - Adult
Also referred to "Simple"
⩥ Complete Life Cycle. Answer: Egg - Larva - Pupa - Adult
⩥ Three characteristics of mites, ticks and spiders. Answer: Eight jointed
legs
Two body regions
Lack wings
⩥ List four types of vertebrate animals that can be pests. Answer: Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
⩥ List types of living organisms that cause plant diseases. Answer:
Fungi
Bacteria
Viruses
Nematodes
⩥ List three main ways a plant responds to infection by a plant disease
agent. Answer: Overdevelopment of tissue
, Underdevelopment of tissue
Death of tissue
⩥ Define weeds. Answer: Weeds are plants growing where thay are not
wanted or in a way that is not desireable
⩥ Characteristics of herbaceous grasses. Answer: One leaf as the emerge
Leaves narrow and upright; veins parallel
Fibrous root system
Growing point sheathed and under soil surface
Growing point gradually moves above soil as plant matures
⩥ Chracteristics of herbaceous broadleaves. Answer: Two leaves as they
emerge
Leaves broad with net-like veins
Exposed growing points at end of each stem
Perennial broadleaved plant may have growing points on roots and
stems below soil
⩥ Chracteristics of woody plants. Answer: brush and shrubs having
several stems and less that 10 feet tall
Trees - single stem and greater than 10 feet tall
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Pest. Answer: living things that compete with human beings for food,
fiber, and space or attach humans directly
⩥ Hosts. Answer: living plants or animals some pests depend on for
survival
⩥ Name two identifying characteristics common to all adult insects.
Answer: Six jointed legs
Three body regions
⩥ Two characteristics which aid in distinguishing one insect from
another. Answer: Wings
Mouthparts
⩥ Explain the differences between the basic life cycles of insects.
Answer: Some change only in size as they develop
Some change form slightly
Some change completely in form and size
,⩥ Gradual Life Cycle. Answer: Eggs - Nymph - Adult
Also referred to "Simple"
⩥ Complete Life Cycle. Answer: Egg - Larva - Pupa - Adult
⩥ Three characteristics of mites, ticks and spiders. Answer: Eight jointed
legs
Two body regions
Lack wings
⩥ List four types of vertebrate animals that can be pests. Answer: Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
⩥ List types of living organisms that cause plant diseases. Answer:
Fungi
Bacteria
Viruses
Nematodes
⩥ List three main ways a plant responds to infection by a plant disease
agent. Answer: Overdevelopment of tissue
, Underdevelopment of tissue
Death of tissue
⩥ Define weeds. Answer: Weeds are plants growing where thay are not
wanted or in a way that is not desireable
⩥ Characteristics of herbaceous grasses. Answer: One leaf as the emerge
Leaves narrow and upright; veins parallel
Fibrous root system
Growing point sheathed and under soil surface
Growing point gradually moves above soil as plant matures
⩥ Chracteristics of herbaceous broadleaves. Answer: Two leaves as they
emerge
Leaves broad with net-like veins
Exposed growing points at end of each stem
Perennial broadleaved plant may have growing points on roots and
stems below soil
⩥ Chracteristics of woody plants. Answer: brush and shrubs having
several stems and less that 10 feet tall
Trees - single stem and greater than 10 feet tall
