FLORIDA TERMITE VERSION 1 AND 2 EXAM
SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Parts per million (PPM).
Answer: A method of expressing very dilute concentrations, in terms of
how much of something there is in a million of the other, such as the
concentration of herbicide in water; for example 2.72 lbs of herbicide
active ingredient per acre foot is equivalent to 1 part per million
⩥ Pesticide registration.
Answer: The process required by the Environmental Protection Agency
to register a pesticide.
⩥ Photolysis.
Answer: Breakdown of a chemical compound such as a herbicide when
it absorbs energy from sunlight.
⩥ Photosynthesis.
Answer: Plant process by which sunlight and water are converted to
simple sugars (plant food)
,⩥ Photosynthesis inhibitor.
Answer: Herbicide that kills plants by inhibiting photosynthesis in one
of several different ways
⩥ Phytoplankton.
Answer: Small, primitive, single-celled or colonial algae that are
suspended in the water.
⩥ Residue tolerance.
Answer: The maximum amount of a pesticide that is legally allowed in
or on a commodity such as fish, crops or drinking water.
⩥ Root active herbicide.
Answer: A herbicide that is absorbed by the roots of plants
⩥ Selective herbicide.
Answer: Herbicide that kills certain kinds of plants without causing
significant injury to others
⩥ Selectivity.
Answer: The ability of a herbicide to cause injury to certain kinds of
plants without causing significant injury to others.
, ⩥ Soft Water.
Answer: Expressed in concentration of CaCO3, water that is low
(<50ppm CaCO3) in carbonates.
⩥ Synthetic auxin.
Answer: Herbicide that kill plants by mimicking auxin, a naturally
occurring plant hormone
⩥ Systemic (translocated) herbicide.
Answer: A herbicide that moves within a plant to its site of action
⩥ Transformation.
Answer: Changes that occur to a herbicide active ingredient after its
applied.
⩥ Translocation.
Answer: Movement of a substance, including a herbicide, within the
vascular tissue (xylem or phloem) of a plant
⩥ Zooplankton.
Answer: Small, primitive, single-celled or colonial animals.
⩥ Which is not a registered herbicide active ingredient in Florida?.
SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Parts per million (PPM).
Answer: A method of expressing very dilute concentrations, in terms of
how much of something there is in a million of the other, such as the
concentration of herbicide in water; for example 2.72 lbs of herbicide
active ingredient per acre foot is equivalent to 1 part per million
⩥ Pesticide registration.
Answer: The process required by the Environmental Protection Agency
to register a pesticide.
⩥ Photolysis.
Answer: Breakdown of a chemical compound such as a herbicide when
it absorbs energy from sunlight.
⩥ Photosynthesis.
Answer: Plant process by which sunlight and water are converted to
simple sugars (plant food)
,⩥ Photosynthesis inhibitor.
Answer: Herbicide that kills plants by inhibiting photosynthesis in one
of several different ways
⩥ Phytoplankton.
Answer: Small, primitive, single-celled or colonial algae that are
suspended in the water.
⩥ Residue tolerance.
Answer: The maximum amount of a pesticide that is legally allowed in
or on a commodity such as fish, crops or drinking water.
⩥ Root active herbicide.
Answer: A herbicide that is absorbed by the roots of plants
⩥ Selective herbicide.
Answer: Herbicide that kills certain kinds of plants without causing
significant injury to others
⩥ Selectivity.
Answer: The ability of a herbicide to cause injury to certain kinds of
plants without causing significant injury to others.
, ⩥ Soft Water.
Answer: Expressed in concentration of CaCO3, water that is low
(<50ppm CaCO3) in carbonates.
⩥ Synthetic auxin.
Answer: Herbicide that kill plants by mimicking auxin, a naturally
occurring plant hormone
⩥ Systemic (translocated) herbicide.
Answer: A herbicide that moves within a plant to its site of action
⩥ Transformation.
Answer: Changes that occur to a herbicide active ingredient after its
applied.
⩥ Translocation.
Answer: Movement of a substance, including a herbicide, within the
vascular tissue (xylem or phloem) of a plant
⩥ Zooplankton.
Answer: Small, primitive, single-celled or colonial animals.
⩥ Which is not a registered herbicide active ingredient in Florida?.
