OTPS EXAM PREP TEST QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2026
What type of mouth parts to grasshoppers have? - Answers - Chewing
What does ADAI stand for? - Answers - Alabama Department of Agriculture and
Industries
How many feet are in a mile? - Answers - 5280
How many square feet in an acre? - Answers - 43,560
How many pints in a quart? - Answers - 2
How many quarts in a gallon? - Answers - 4
How many ounces are in a gallon? - Answers - 128
Weeds, Insects and Diseases are all examples of what? - Answers - Pests
Is an insecticide a pesticide? - Answers - Yes
Is a pesticide an insecticide? - Answers - No/not necessarily
Is grass a monocot or a dicot - Answers - Monocot
True or False. A grassy (monocot) weed is harder to treat in a grass than a dicot weed.
- Answers - True
Broad leaves are monocots or dicots? - Answers - Dicots
What is a weed? - Answers - A plant growing out of place where it is not wanted.
What is an annual plant? - Answers - Lives (entry life cycle lasts) for one growing
season.
What is a perennial plant? - Answers - One that regrow every spring.
What is a plant that completes its life cycle in 2 years? - Answers - Biennial.
What are the four plant life cycles? - Answers - Germination, growth, flowering,
dormancy
, Musk thistle is an example of what life cycle? - Answers - Biennial.
What two terms describe the direction a plant grows? - Answers - Upright and prostrate.
Florida Betony/Rattlesnake Weed is an example of what growth direction and lifecycle?
- Answers - Upright perennial.
Yellow Nutsedge is hard to control if the ground is ..... - Answers - wet.
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Virginia Buttonweed? - Answers
- Prostrate, perennial, dicot
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Spotted Spurge? - Answers -
Annual, broadleaf
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Yellow Nutsedge? - Answers -
Perennial
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Wild Garlic? - Answers -
Perennial
How many body regions and pairs of legs to insects have? - Answers - 3 and 3
What are the three body parts of an insect? - Answers - Head, thorax and abdomen.
What are the four life cycle stages of insects? - Answers - egg, larva-worms
(caterpillars), pupa & adult
Which insect stages are not as impacted by insecticides? - Answers - Egg and pupa.
What are the 3 stages of incomplete metamorphosis? - Answers - Egg, nymph and
adult
What type of insect mouthparts leave holes on leaves? - Answers - Chewing.
Eating leaves between the veins leaves this type of damage and is typical of what
insect? - Answers - Skeletonization. Japanese Beetle.
What type of mouthparts leave stippling damage and what does that mean? - Answers -
Piercing/sucking. Dead cells around piercing.
What are the types of insects by mouthparts? - Answers - Chewing, piercing/sucking,
rasping, siphoning, sponging (throwing up and absorbing back up)
ANSWERS 2026
What type of mouth parts to grasshoppers have? - Answers - Chewing
What does ADAI stand for? - Answers - Alabama Department of Agriculture and
Industries
How many feet are in a mile? - Answers - 5280
How many square feet in an acre? - Answers - 43,560
How many pints in a quart? - Answers - 2
How many quarts in a gallon? - Answers - 4
How many ounces are in a gallon? - Answers - 128
Weeds, Insects and Diseases are all examples of what? - Answers - Pests
Is an insecticide a pesticide? - Answers - Yes
Is a pesticide an insecticide? - Answers - No/not necessarily
Is grass a monocot or a dicot - Answers - Monocot
True or False. A grassy (monocot) weed is harder to treat in a grass than a dicot weed.
- Answers - True
Broad leaves are monocots or dicots? - Answers - Dicots
What is a weed? - Answers - A plant growing out of place where it is not wanted.
What is an annual plant? - Answers - Lives (entry life cycle lasts) for one growing
season.
What is a perennial plant? - Answers - One that regrow every spring.
What is a plant that completes its life cycle in 2 years? - Answers - Biennial.
What are the four plant life cycles? - Answers - Germination, growth, flowering,
dormancy
, Musk thistle is an example of what life cycle? - Answers - Biennial.
What two terms describe the direction a plant grows? - Answers - Upright and prostrate.
Florida Betony/Rattlesnake Weed is an example of what growth direction and lifecycle?
- Answers - Upright perennial.
Yellow Nutsedge is hard to control if the ground is ..... - Answers - wet.
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Virginia Buttonweed? - Answers
- Prostrate, perennial, dicot
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Spotted Spurge? - Answers -
Annual, broadleaf
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Yellow Nutsedge? - Answers -
Perennial
What is the growth direction, lifecycle and seed type of Wild Garlic? - Answers -
Perennial
How many body regions and pairs of legs to insects have? - Answers - 3 and 3
What are the three body parts of an insect? - Answers - Head, thorax and abdomen.
What are the four life cycle stages of insects? - Answers - egg, larva-worms
(caterpillars), pupa & adult
Which insect stages are not as impacted by insecticides? - Answers - Egg and pupa.
What are the 3 stages of incomplete metamorphosis? - Answers - Egg, nymph and
adult
What type of insect mouthparts leave holes on leaves? - Answers - Chewing.
Eating leaves between the veins leaves this type of damage and is typical of what
insect? - Answers - Skeletonization. Japanese Beetle.
What type of mouthparts leave stippling damage and what does that mean? - Answers -
Piercing/sucking. Dead cells around piercing.
What are the types of insects by mouthparts? - Answers - Chewing, piercing/sucking,
rasping, siphoning, sponging (throwing up and absorbing back up)
