ALABAMA OTPS UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What are the modes of entry?
Answer:
Dermal, oral, respitory, ocular
Question:
2. When is the pesticide handler in greatest danger of exposure?
Answer:
During mixing and loading
Question:
3. Name the signal words from least toxic to most toxic.
Answer:
Caution, warning, danger, danger poison
Question:
4. What is the misuse statement?
Answer:
Prohibits- increasing the rate over maximum application rate as per the label. Prohibits use of pesticide on
a site not listed on the label.
Question:
5. What are the penalties for violating FIFRA?
Answer:
Federal crime penalties: commercial applications convicting of violating FIFRA, subject of up to $25K
and up to 1 year in prison. Civil- commercial applications up to 5K for each offense.
Question:
6. What are 4 reasons to keep pesticide application records?
Answer:
1. Law. 2. Helps determine how effective application is on pest. 3. Document for purchase proof and use.
4. Provides assistance in diagnosing complaints and problems. *Note Keep records for 3 years
Question:
7. How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a restricted-use pesticide?
Answer:
Restricted 10K. Non-restricted 5K. Without license 5K
Question:
8. How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a non-restricted-use pesticide?
Answer:
5K
, Question:
9. What are 3 different life cycles of the weed and how long does it take to complete each?
Answer:
Annual- 1 season. Biannually- 2 seasons. Perennial- 3 or more
Question:
10. Which weed reproduces with underground flowers? Perennial broadleaf weed; stems somewhat fleshy
and green-white in color; elliptically shaped leaves are oppositely arranged on the stem; 4 pedaled white
flowers are borne in the leaf fork or axils; flowers develop into round 'button like' seed capsules
Answer:
Virginia button weed
Question:
11. Identify the 5 classifications of insect mouthparts.
Answer:
Chewing. Piercing. Rasping. Siphoning. Sponging
Question:
12. Examples of chewing insects
Answer:
Bag worms, cutworms, grasshoppers, beetles, leaf miners, and borers.
Question:
13. Scales and mealybugs, aphids, whiteflies, and lace bugs.
Answer:
Examples of piercing-sucking insects
Question:
14. Which insects insert their needle-like mouthparts into the plant and withdraw plant juices. Most feed
on the underside of the leaves or stems of plants. In the insects are present on leaving, the topsides of the
leaves will have stipples, yellowish areas. Sometime the leaves may curl as a result of this type of feeding,
especially in the plant growth.
Answer:
Piercing-sucking insects.
Question:
15. Some of these pests, soft scales, aphids, mealybugs, and whiteflies, excrete large amounts of
honeydew, which provides a medium for the growth of a black fungus called sooty mold.
Answer:
Piercing-sucking insects
Question:
16. Which insects are the most damaging pests of ornamental plants?
Answer:
Scales
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What are the modes of entry?
Answer:
Dermal, oral, respitory, ocular
Question:
2. When is the pesticide handler in greatest danger of exposure?
Answer:
During mixing and loading
Question:
3. Name the signal words from least toxic to most toxic.
Answer:
Caution, warning, danger, danger poison
Question:
4. What is the misuse statement?
Answer:
Prohibits- increasing the rate over maximum application rate as per the label. Prohibits use of pesticide on
a site not listed on the label.
Question:
5. What are the penalties for violating FIFRA?
Answer:
Federal crime penalties: commercial applications convicting of violating FIFRA, subject of up to $25K
and up to 1 year in prison. Civil- commercial applications up to 5K for each offense.
Question:
6. What are 4 reasons to keep pesticide application records?
Answer:
1. Law. 2. Helps determine how effective application is on pest. 3. Document for purchase proof and use.
4. Provides assistance in diagnosing complaints and problems. *Note Keep records for 3 years
Question:
7. How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a restricted-use pesticide?
Answer:
Restricted 10K. Non-restricted 5K. Without license 5K
Question:
8. How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a non-restricted-use pesticide?
Answer:
5K
, Question:
9. What are 3 different life cycles of the weed and how long does it take to complete each?
Answer:
Annual- 1 season. Biannually- 2 seasons. Perennial- 3 or more
Question:
10. Which weed reproduces with underground flowers? Perennial broadleaf weed; stems somewhat fleshy
and green-white in color; elliptically shaped leaves are oppositely arranged on the stem; 4 pedaled white
flowers are borne in the leaf fork or axils; flowers develop into round 'button like' seed capsules
Answer:
Virginia button weed
Question:
11. Identify the 5 classifications of insect mouthparts.
Answer:
Chewing. Piercing. Rasping. Siphoning. Sponging
Question:
12. Examples of chewing insects
Answer:
Bag worms, cutworms, grasshoppers, beetles, leaf miners, and borers.
Question:
13. Scales and mealybugs, aphids, whiteflies, and lace bugs.
Answer:
Examples of piercing-sucking insects
Question:
14. Which insects insert their needle-like mouthparts into the plant and withdraw plant juices. Most feed
on the underside of the leaves or stems of plants. In the insects are present on leaving, the topsides of the
leaves will have stipples, yellowish areas. Sometime the leaves may curl as a result of this type of feeding,
especially in the plant growth.
Answer:
Piercing-sucking insects.
Question:
15. Some of these pests, soft scales, aphids, mealybugs, and whiteflies, excrete large amounts of
honeydew, which provides a medium for the growth of a black fungus called sooty mold.
Answer:
Piercing-sucking insects
Question:
16. Which insects are the most damaging pests of ornamental plants?
Answer:
Scales
