QAL "B" License-Landscape Maintenance Pest Control Chpt 1 Questions and Answers 100% Correct!

Four ways that weeds compete with the desirable plants: - ANSWER-water, nutrients, light, reduced visual beauty Name six pests to landscape (besides weeds) - ANSWER-insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, viruses, & nematodes Pests that are vertebrates: - ANSWER-rodents that make burrows, mounds, & chew on roots, bark, & leaves Four main groups of landscape pests: - ANSWER-Weeds, invertebrates, vertebrates, plant pathogens Weeds are classified as: - ANSWER-undesirable plants Invertebrate pests are: - ANSWER-insects, spiders, mites, nematodes, snails, slugs Vertebrate pests are: - ANSWER-rodents, other mammals, birds Plant pathogens are: - ANSWER-bacteria, viruses, fungi, other microorganisms Ways that weeds reproduce: (2) - ANSWER-many seeds (dormant for up to 20 years), vegetative structures (stolons, rhizomes, tubers), Two main classifications of weeds: - ANSWER-dicots & monocots Definition of Dicot: - ANSWER-Broadleaves, produces two seedling leaves (cotyledons) Parasitic Dicots: (2) - ANSWER-Mistletoe and dodder Invertebrates are: - ANSWER-animals without backbones Arthropods: - ANSWER-"Jointed foot" external skeleton and jointed body parts (insects, spiders, mites, and their relatives) Biotic Disease Factors: - ANSWER-Pathogens that are spread form one host to another. Three landscape biotic pathogens: - ANSWER-bacteria, fungi, & viruses Fungi characteristics: - ANSWER-Can live off both living and dead plant tissue Fungi vegetative body is called: - ANSWER-Mycelium