QAL B License-Landscape Maintenance Pest Control Chpt 1 Correct Answers!!2024

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