NC Pesticide Applicator Core Manual Latest
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1. Aerial Applicator - Correct Answer ✅💯An individual who applies pesticides by aircraft
2. Applied controls - Correct Answer ✅💯Pest control measures used by humans. These
include biological, cultural, mechanical, and chemical control.
3. Applies to all label statements - Correct Answer ✅💯they have the force of law
4. Biological Control - Correct Answer ✅💯the intentional release of a natural enemy to attack
a pest population
5. Biological Controls - Correct Answer ✅💯Predators, parasites, pathogens
6. Chemical Controls (Pesticides) - Correct Answer ✅💯may lose effectiveness over time, may
harm non-target species, may drift offsite, often perceived as best solution when they aren't
7. Chemical Controls (Pesticides) - Correct Answer ✅💯usually effective, usually quick acting,
cost less than other control options
8. Commercial Ground Applicator - Correct Answer ✅💯anyone who uses or supervises the
use of pesticides for compensation
9. Commissioner of Agriculture or Pesticide Board - Correct Answer ✅💯must notify Wildlife
Resource Commission when a vertebrate animal is declared a pest
10. Contact Pesticides - Correct Answer ✅💯remain on surface of treated pest and are not
absorbed and only affect part of plant or pest that is exposed.
11. Control Failure - Correct Answer ✅💯occurs due to incorrect pest identification, dosage, or
method, poor timing, and new infestation development after initial treatment
12. Cultural Control - Correct Answer ✅💯sometimes the lowest cost option, designed to alter
the environment or the condition of the host plant or site to prevent or suppress an infection
13. Economic Injury Level - Correct Answer ✅💯The pest population level at which the value
of lost crop yield EQUALS the cost of controlling that pest population.
14. Economic or Action Threshold - Correct Answer ✅💯the pest population at which control
measure are needed to prevent reaching the economic injury level
15. Endangered Species Act - Correct Answer ✅💯Federal law administered by US Fish and
Wildlife Service which makes it illegal to kill, harm, or collect endangered or threatened
wildlife. Requires other agencies to uphold this.
16. EPA - Correct Answer ✅💯responsible for registering or authorizing pesticide products for
use in the US
17. Eradication - Correct Answer ✅💯the total elimination from a pest in a given area
18. Exclusion - Correct Answer ✅💯screen barriers, sealing cracks and small openings
19. Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act - Correct Answer ✅💯governs the establishment of
pesticide tolerances for food and feed products.
20. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - Correct Answer
✅💯regulates the production, transportation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides
21. Food and Drug administration - Correct Answer ✅💯monitors the food and feed products
tolerance violations
22. Food Quality Protection Act - Correct Answer ✅💯requires EPA to review every registered
pesticide on a 15 year cycle
23. Genetic Resistance - Correct Answer ✅💯when a plant or animal is bred to be resistant
24. Hazard Communication Standard - Correct Answer ✅💯requires employers to make lists of
hazardous chemicals, keep safety data sheets, ensure proper labeling, train workers properly,
keep files available
Update| Approved Download A+
1. Aerial Applicator - Correct Answer ✅💯An individual who applies pesticides by aircraft
2. Applied controls - Correct Answer ✅💯Pest control measures used by humans. These
include biological, cultural, mechanical, and chemical control.
3. Applies to all label statements - Correct Answer ✅💯they have the force of law
4. Biological Control - Correct Answer ✅💯the intentional release of a natural enemy to attack
a pest population
5. Biological Controls - Correct Answer ✅💯Predators, parasites, pathogens
6. Chemical Controls (Pesticides) - Correct Answer ✅💯may lose effectiveness over time, may
harm non-target species, may drift offsite, often perceived as best solution when they aren't
7. Chemical Controls (Pesticides) - Correct Answer ✅💯usually effective, usually quick acting,
cost less than other control options
8. Commercial Ground Applicator - Correct Answer ✅💯anyone who uses or supervises the
use of pesticides for compensation
9. Commissioner of Agriculture or Pesticide Board - Correct Answer ✅💯must notify Wildlife
Resource Commission when a vertebrate animal is declared a pest
10. Contact Pesticides - Correct Answer ✅💯remain on surface of treated pest and are not
absorbed and only affect part of plant or pest that is exposed.
11. Control Failure - Correct Answer ✅💯occurs due to incorrect pest identification, dosage, or
method, poor timing, and new infestation development after initial treatment
12. Cultural Control - Correct Answer ✅💯sometimes the lowest cost option, designed to alter
the environment or the condition of the host plant or site to prevent or suppress an infection
13. Economic Injury Level - Correct Answer ✅💯The pest population level at which the value
of lost crop yield EQUALS the cost of controlling that pest population.
14. Economic or Action Threshold - Correct Answer ✅💯the pest population at which control
measure are needed to prevent reaching the economic injury level
15. Endangered Species Act - Correct Answer ✅💯Federal law administered by US Fish and
Wildlife Service which makes it illegal to kill, harm, or collect endangered or threatened
wildlife. Requires other agencies to uphold this.
16. EPA - Correct Answer ✅💯responsible for registering or authorizing pesticide products for
use in the US
17. Eradication - Correct Answer ✅💯the total elimination from a pest in a given area
18. Exclusion - Correct Answer ✅💯screen barriers, sealing cracks and small openings
19. Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act - Correct Answer ✅💯governs the establishment of
pesticide tolerances for food and feed products.
20. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - Correct Answer
✅💯regulates the production, transportation, sale, use, and disposal of all pesticides
21. Food and Drug administration - Correct Answer ✅💯monitors the food and feed products
tolerance violations
22. Food Quality Protection Act - Correct Answer ✅💯requires EPA to review every registered
pesticide on a 15 year cycle
23. Genetic Resistance - Correct Answer ✅💯when a plant or animal is bred to be resistant
24. Hazard Communication Standard - Correct Answer ✅💯requires employers to make lists of
hazardous chemicals, keep safety data sheets, ensure proper labeling, train workers properly,
keep files available
