ONTARIO OIT UPDATED ASSESSMENT TEST
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS WITH FULL
SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ The landscape license does not authorize the use of pesticide in a
land extermination ?
A. To maintain ornamental plants on residential and recreational
land.
B. To control pest in treed areas of less then one hectare
C. To maintain weeds in a driveway located directly beside turf
D. Along rail lines to control brush. Answer: D. Along rail lines to
control brush
◉ True or False: the holder of my landscape license may control
spiders on the outside of a building in connection with the landscape
management ?. Answer: True
◉ What are the common stages of weed development?. Answer:
Seed
Vegetative
Reproductive
,◉ What are the three developments stages in incomplete or simple
metamorphosis ?. Answer: Egg to nymph to adult
◉ What are the development 3 stages in complete metamorphosis?.
Answer: Egg to larva to pupa to adult
◉ What are the development 3 stages to know no metamorphosis.
Answer: Egg too young to adult
◉ What type of weed typically lives more than two years
A. Biennial weeds
B. Perennial weeds
C. Annual weeds. Answer: B. perennial weeds
◉ Winter annuals typically germinate at what time of the year ?.
Answer: Late summer in or early fall
◉ List five undesirable characteristics of a weed ?. Answer: • be
aesthetically pleasing
• Unable to use equipment safely
• Compete with cultivated plants for water or nutrients
• pose a threat to people, example hazards, and snow drift
• reduces the visibility, long transportation corridors
,◉ Which of the following term is not used to describe a broadleaf
plant?
A. Course root system
B. Tillers
C. True leaves
D. Cotyledons. Answer: B. Tillers
◉ Prostrate knotweeds can grow in _________ soils. As a result
knotweed is often found in pathways and driveways ?. Answer:
Compact soil
◉ What characteristics does the perennial sow thistles and thyme
leaf spurge have in common ?. Answer: Both perennial stems
produce and milky juice when broken ?
◉ True or False: earwigs have complete metamorphosis. Answer:
False
◉ True or false true bugs if it's leaf hoppers and scale, insects have
sucking mouth parts. Answer: True
◉ True or false flies and moths have two pairs of membranes wings.
Answer: False
, ◉ True or False spiders are insects ?. Answer: False
◉ What is distinguishing characteristic of shepherd"s purse?.
Answer: It has a triangular shaped seed pods
◉ What insect can be identified by the presence of scales on their
wings. Answer: Butterfly and Moths (Lepidoptera)
◉ Beetles and ants have complete metamorphosis what immature
stages are there in the complete metamorphosis?. Answer: Egg
Larva
Pupa
◉ Arachnida be distinguished from other insects because ?. Answer:
They only have two main body regions head and abdomen
◉ During what stage are insects most vulnerable to control by
insecticides ?. Answer: The young, nymph or larva stages
◉ The damage from the Japanese beetle is usually seen in what
month ?. Answer: August or September
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS WITH FULL
SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ The landscape license does not authorize the use of pesticide in a
land extermination ?
A. To maintain ornamental plants on residential and recreational
land.
B. To control pest in treed areas of less then one hectare
C. To maintain weeds in a driveway located directly beside turf
D. Along rail lines to control brush. Answer: D. Along rail lines to
control brush
◉ True or False: the holder of my landscape license may control
spiders on the outside of a building in connection with the landscape
management ?. Answer: True
◉ What are the common stages of weed development?. Answer:
Seed
Vegetative
Reproductive
,◉ What are the three developments stages in incomplete or simple
metamorphosis ?. Answer: Egg to nymph to adult
◉ What are the development 3 stages in complete metamorphosis?.
Answer: Egg to larva to pupa to adult
◉ What are the development 3 stages to know no metamorphosis.
Answer: Egg too young to adult
◉ What type of weed typically lives more than two years
A. Biennial weeds
B. Perennial weeds
C. Annual weeds. Answer: B. perennial weeds
◉ Winter annuals typically germinate at what time of the year ?.
Answer: Late summer in or early fall
◉ List five undesirable characteristics of a weed ?. Answer: • be
aesthetically pleasing
• Unable to use equipment safely
• Compete with cultivated plants for water or nutrients
• pose a threat to people, example hazards, and snow drift
• reduces the visibility, long transportation corridors
,◉ Which of the following term is not used to describe a broadleaf
plant?
A. Course root system
B. Tillers
C. True leaves
D. Cotyledons. Answer: B. Tillers
◉ Prostrate knotweeds can grow in _________ soils. As a result
knotweed is often found in pathways and driveways ?. Answer:
Compact soil
◉ What characteristics does the perennial sow thistles and thyme
leaf spurge have in common ?. Answer: Both perennial stems
produce and milky juice when broken ?
◉ True or False: earwigs have complete metamorphosis. Answer:
False
◉ True or false true bugs if it's leaf hoppers and scale, insects have
sucking mouth parts. Answer: True
◉ True or false flies and moths have two pairs of membranes wings.
Answer: False
, ◉ True or False spiders are insects ?. Answer: False
◉ What is distinguishing characteristic of shepherd"s purse?.
Answer: It has a triangular shaped seed pods
◉ What insect can be identified by the presence of scales on their
wings. Answer: Butterfly and Moths (Lepidoptera)
◉ Beetles and ants have complete metamorphosis what immature
stages are there in the complete metamorphosis?. Answer: Egg
Larva
Pupa
◉ Arachnida be distinguished from other insects because ?. Answer:
They only have two main body regions head and abdomen
◉ During what stage are insects most vulnerable to control by
insecticides ?. Answer: The young, nymph or larva stages
◉ The damage from the Japanese beetle is usually seen in what
month ?. Answer: August or September
