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NH Pesticide Core Manuel Exam Questions
With Correct Answers.
Pest - answer✔Is an undesirable organism that injures humans, desirable plants and animals,
manufactured products, or natural substances.
Pathogens - answer✔Disease causing organisms.
Ex. Viruses, Bacteria, or Fungi
Pesticide Resistance - answer✔is the ability of a pest to tolerate a pesticide that once controlled it
Bioaccumulation - answer✔The ability of organisms to accumulate or store chemicals in their
tissues.
Biomagnification - answer✔The process whereby some organisms accumulate chemical residues
in higher concentrations than those found in the organisms they consume
EPA - answer✔Created in 1970 by congress to implement law passed to protect the environment
and the heath of humans and animals.
Weeds - answer✔undesirable plants
Invertebrate animals - answer✔insects, mites, ticks, spiders, snails, and slugs.
pathogens or disease agents - answer✔bacteria, viruses, fungi, nematodes, mycoplasmas, and
other microorganisms
Vertebrate animal - answer✔birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and rodents and other mammals.
Abiotic factors - answer✔natural control measures within the environment that injure or destroy
plants and animals, including pest.
EX. climatic factors
air or water pollution
topographic features