QAC LANDSCAPE AND MAINTENANCE
FINAL TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ Where does a maintenance gardener spray?.
Answer: On or around ornamental plants, turf, fruit trees, shrubs, and small
fruits and berries. Areas typically include homes, businesses, cemeteries,
parks, malls and places with indoor plants. Work often around human
activities.
◍ Why does a maintenance gardener spray?.
Answer: To control a pest so that it does not compete with other plants for
nutrition, and for aesthetics.
◍ The difference between CA laws and DPR regulations is that laws are.
Answer: Passed by the CA legislature and regulations are adopted by the
DPR to carry out the laws
◍ What is a weed?.
Answer: A weed is a plant that is not desired in a landscape. Weeds also
compete with desired plants for water, nutrition, and space.
◍ Which of the following is not one of the purposes of CA's pesticide and pest
control laws and regulations?.
Answer: Encouraging people to use more pesticides
◍ A cooperating agency that helps DPR enforce pesticide use laws and
regulations in CA is the.
Answer: County Ag Commissioner
◍ What is a pest?.
Answer: A pest is an organism that can cause problems in various ways
, including: competing with people for food and fiber; transmitting diseases
between plants, damaging plants, and damaging structures
◍ Why is it important to identify a pest?.
Answer: Misidentification and lack of information about a pest could cause
you to choose the wrong control method or apply the control at the wrong
time.
◍ True or False? Pesticide labels refer to most pests by their common names..
Answer: True, like housefly, roof rat, american cockroach
◍ CAC may adopt supplemental pesticide regulations with the approval of the.
Answer: DPR
◍ Name four stages of insect growth changes..
Answer: Eggs, larval, pupal, and adult
◍ Restricted materials are.
Answer: pesticides deemed to have a higher potential to cause harm to
public health, farm workers, domestic animals, bees, environment, wildlife,
or other crops compared to other pesticides
◍ What department issues a Certificate of Registration for each pesticide
product after reviewing and accepting data and documentation, including
labeling?.
Answer: Department of Pesticide Regulation DPR
◍ What stage of growth are weeds most readily controlled?.
Answer: Seedling Stage
◍ True or False? Most perennial weeds are not susceptible to herbicides during
early bloom stages..
Answer: True
◍ A registrant cannot sell a pesticide product in CA if the.
Answer: Registrant allows the registration to lapse by not renewing it, OR
DPR or US EPA suspends or cancels the pesticide product registration
◍ If the registrant allows a product to lapse, a pest control dealer who acquires
, the pesticide product while it was still registered may.
Answer: sell and deliver it for two years after the last date of registration
◍ What is the difference between a summer annual and a winter annual?.
Answer: Seeds of a summer annual sprout in spring, and the plants produce
seeds and die in the summer or fall. Seeds of a winter annual sprout in the
fall, and the plant produces seeds in the spring and usually die before
summer.
◍ When US EPA or DPR CANCELS/SUSPENDS the registration of a
pesticide product they.
Answer: often impose specific restrictions on the sale and use of existing
stocks
◍ Name one summer annual and name one winter annual..
Answer: Puncturevine; Annual bluegrass
◍ What is a perennial weed?.
Answer: A weed that grows for more than 2 years.
◍ Any changed made to the registered label, such as adding new crops or
prohibiting certain application methods, must be reviewed by.
Answer: US EPA and DPR before the product bearing the proposed
amended label can be sold or used in CA
◍ Name one perennial weed..
Answer: Bermudagrass
◍ What is FIFRA.
Answer: Federal Insecticide Fungicide Rodenticide Act
◍ FIFRA is the federal law that.
Answer: outlines the various types of pesticide product registrations and
exemptions from registration
◍ FIFRA section 3 grants....
Answer: US EPA the authority to register pesticide products with the
corresponding label often referred to as the section 3 label containing basic
FINAL TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ Where does a maintenance gardener spray?.
Answer: On or around ornamental plants, turf, fruit trees, shrubs, and small
fruits and berries. Areas typically include homes, businesses, cemeteries,
parks, malls and places with indoor plants. Work often around human
activities.
◍ Why does a maintenance gardener spray?.
Answer: To control a pest so that it does not compete with other plants for
nutrition, and for aesthetics.
◍ The difference between CA laws and DPR regulations is that laws are.
Answer: Passed by the CA legislature and regulations are adopted by the
DPR to carry out the laws
◍ What is a weed?.
Answer: A weed is a plant that is not desired in a landscape. Weeds also
compete with desired plants for water, nutrition, and space.
◍ Which of the following is not one of the purposes of CA's pesticide and pest
control laws and regulations?.
Answer: Encouraging people to use more pesticides
◍ A cooperating agency that helps DPR enforce pesticide use laws and
regulations in CA is the.
Answer: County Ag Commissioner
◍ What is a pest?.
Answer: A pest is an organism that can cause problems in various ways
, including: competing with people for food and fiber; transmitting diseases
between plants, damaging plants, and damaging structures
◍ Why is it important to identify a pest?.
Answer: Misidentification and lack of information about a pest could cause
you to choose the wrong control method or apply the control at the wrong
time.
◍ True or False? Pesticide labels refer to most pests by their common names..
Answer: True, like housefly, roof rat, american cockroach
◍ CAC may adopt supplemental pesticide regulations with the approval of the.
Answer: DPR
◍ Name four stages of insect growth changes..
Answer: Eggs, larval, pupal, and adult
◍ Restricted materials are.
Answer: pesticides deemed to have a higher potential to cause harm to
public health, farm workers, domestic animals, bees, environment, wildlife,
or other crops compared to other pesticides
◍ What department issues a Certificate of Registration for each pesticide
product after reviewing and accepting data and documentation, including
labeling?.
Answer: Department of Pesticide Regulation DPR
◍ What stage of growth are weeds most readily controlled?.
Answer: Seedling Stage
◍ True or False? Most perennial weeds are not susceptible to herbicides during
early bloom stages..
Answer: True
◍ A registrant cannot sell a pesticide product in CA if the.
Answer: Registrant allows the registration to lapse by not renewing it, OR
DPR or US EPA suspends or cancels the pesticide product registration
◍ If the registrant allows a product to lapse, a pest control dealer who acquires
, the pesticide product while it was still registered may.
Answer: sell and deliver it for two years after the last date of registration
◍ What is the difference between a summer annual and a winter annual?.
Answer: Seeds of a summer annual sprout in spring, and the plants produce
seeds and die in the summer or fall. Seeds of a winter annual sprout in the
fall, and the plant produces seeds in the spring and usually die before
summer.
◍ When US EPA or DPR CANCELS/SUSPENDS the registration of a
pesticide product they.
Answer: often impose specific restrictions on the sale and use of existing
stocks
◍ Name one summer annual and name one winter annual..
Answer: Puncturevine; Annual bluegrass
◍ What is a perennial weed?.
Answer: A weed that grows for more than 2 years.
◍ Any changed made to the registered label, such as adding new crops or
prohibiting certain application methods, must be reviewed by.
Answer: US EPA and DPR before the product bearing the proposed
amended label can be sold or used in CA
◍ Name one perennial weed..
Answer: Bermudagrass
◍ What is FIFRA.
Answer: Federal Insecticide Fungicide Rodenticide Act
◍ FIFRA is the federal law that.
Answer: outlines the various types of pesticide product registrations and
exemptions from registration
◍ FIFRA section 3 grants....
Answer: US EPA the authority to register pesticide products with the
corresponding label often referred to as the section 3 label containing basic
