ALABAMA OTPS EXAM PRACTICE Question and
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• Five mains groups of pests. -✓✓1. Insects
2. Snails and slugs
3. Vertebrates
4. Plant disease agents
5. Weeds
• Pest -✓✓living things that compete with human beings for food, fiber,
and space or attach humans directly
• Hosts -✓✓living plants or animals some pests depend on for survival
• Name two identifying characteristics common to all adult insects -
✓✓Six jointed legs
Three body regions
• Two characteristics which aid in distinguishing one insect from another
-✓✓Wings
Mouthparts
,• Explain the differences between the basic life cycles of insects -
✓✓Some change only in size as they develop
Some change form slightly
Some change completely in form and size
• Gradual Life Cycle -✓✓Eggs - Nymph - Adult
Also referred to "Simple"
• Complete Life Cycle -✓✓Egg - Larva - Pupa - Adult
• Three characteristics of mites, ticks and spiders -✓✓Eight jointed legs
Two body regions
Lack wings
• List four types of vertebrate animals that can be pests -✓✓Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
• List types of living organisms that cause plant diseases -✓✓Fungi
Bacteria
Viruses
Nematodes
, • List three main ways a plant responds to infection by a plant disease
agent -✓✓Overdevelopment of tissue
Underdevelopment of tissue
Death of tissue
• Define weeds -✓✓Weeds are plants growing where thay are not
wanted or in a way that is not desireable
• Characteristics of herbaceous grasses -✓✓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 -✓✓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 -✓✓brush and shrubs having several
stems and less that 10 feet tall
Answer 2026 | Comprehensive Study Pack with
Detailed Rationales | A+ Verified
• Five mains groups of pests. -✓✓1. Insects
2. Snails and slugs
3. Vertebrates
4. Plant disease agents
5. Weeds
• Pest -✓✓living things that compete with human beings for food, fiber,
and space or attach humans directly
• Hosts -✓✓living plants or animals some pests depend on for survival
• Name two identifying characteristics common to all adult insects -
✓✓Six jointed legs
Three body regions
• Two characteristics which aid in distinguishing one insect from another
-✓✓Wings
Mouthparts
,• Explain the differences between the basic life cycles of insects -
✓✓Some change only in size as they develop
Some change form slightly
Some change completely in form and size
• Gradual Life Cycle -✓✓Eggs - Nymph - Adult
Also referred to "Simple"
• Complete Life Cycle -✓✓Egg - Larva - Pupa - Adult
• Three characteristics of mites, ticks and spiders -✓✓Eight jointed legs
Two body regions
Lack wings
• List four types of vertebrate animals that can be pests -✓✓Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
• List types of living organisms that cause plant diseases -✓✓Fungi
Bacteria
Viruses
Nematodes
, • List three main ways a plant responds to infection by a plant disease
agent -✓✓Overdevelopment of tissue
Underdevelopment of tissue
Death of tissue
• Define weeds -✓✓Weeds are plants growing where thay are not
wanted or in a way that is not desireable
• Characteristics of herbaceous grasses -✓✓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 -✓✓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 -✓✓brush and shrubs having several
stems and less that 10 feet tall
