TruGreen General Pest Management Test
7A Questions and Answers Guide
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The movement of a chemical into plants, animals (including
humans), and/or microorganisms. - Correct Answers
✅ABSORPTION
A pesticide used to control mites and ticks. Amiticide is an
acaricide. - Correct Answers ✅ACARICIDE
The chemical or chemicals in a pesticide responsible for
killing, poisoning, or repelling
the pest. Listed separately in the ingredient statement. -
Correct Answers ✅ACTIVE INGREDIENT
The capacity of a pesticide to cause injury within 24 hours
following exposure. LD50 and LC50
are common indicators of the degree of acute toxicity.
(See also chronic toxicity). - Correct Answers ✅ACUTE
TOXICITY
A substance added to a pesticide to improve its effectiveness
or safety. Same as additive.
Examples: penetrants, spreader-stickers, and wetting
agents. - Correct Answers ✅ADJUVANT
,TruGreen General Pest Management Test
7A Questions and Answers Guide
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The process by which chemicals are held or bound to a
surface by physical or chemical attraction.
Clay and high organic soils tend to adsorb pesticides. -
Correct Answers ✅ADSORPTION
See pheromone. - Correct Answers ✅AGGREGATION
PHEROMONE
Amaterial stored in a container under pressure.
Fine droplets are produced when the material dissolved
in a liquid carrier is released into the air from the
pressurized container. - Correct Answers ✅AEROSOL
Relatively simple plants that contain chlorophyll
and are photosynthetic. - Correct Answers ✅ALGAE
Apesticide used to kill or inhibit algae. - Correct Answers
✅ALGICIDE
A device attached to the
filling hose that prevents backflow or back-siphoning
from a spray tank into a water source. - Correct Answers
✅ANTI-SIPHONING DEVICE
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A chemical that prevents normal
blood clotting—the active ingredient in some rodenticides. -
Correct Answers ✅ANTICOAGULANT
A treatment used to counteract the effects
of pesticide poisoning or some other poison in the body. -
Correct Answers ✅ANTIDOTE
A wingless arthropod with two body
regions and four pairs of jointed legs. Spiders, ticks, and
mites are in the class Arachnida. - Correct Answers
✅ARACHNID
An invertebrate animal characterized
by a jointed body and limbs and usually a hard body covering
that is molted at intervals. For example, insects,
mites, and crayfish are in the phylum Arthropoda. - Correct
Answers ✅ARTHROPOD
A substance or device that will lure
pests to a trap or poison bait. - Correct Answers
✅ATTRACTANT
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A pesticide used to kill or repel birds. Birds
are in the class Aves. - Correct Answers ✅AVICIDE
Microscopic organisms, some of which are
capable of producing diseases in plants and animals.
Others are beneficial. - Correct Answers ✅BACTERIA
Chemical used to control bacteria. - Correct Answers
✅BACTERICIDE
Afood or other substance used to attract a pest to
a pesticide or to a trap. - Correct Answers ✅BAIT
Application of a pesticide
in a strip alongside or around a structure, a portion of a
structure, or any object. - Correct Answers ✅BARRIER
APPLICATION
An insect that is useful or helpful
to humans; usually insect parasites, predators, pollinators,
etc. - Correct Answers ✅BENEFICIAL INSECT
7A Questions and Answers Guide
(already passed) Latest 2025
The movement of a chemical into plants, animals (including
humans), and/or microorganisms. - Correct Answers
✅ABSORPTION
A pesticide used to control mites and ticks. Amiticide is an
acaricide. - Correct Answers ✅ACARICIDE
The chemical or chemicals in a pesticide responsible for
killing, poisoning, or repelling
the pest. Listed separately in the ingredient statement. -
Correct Answers ✅ACTIVE INGREDIENT
The capacity of a pesticide to cause injury within 24 hours
following exposure. LD50 and LC50
are common indicators of the degree of acute toxicity.
(See also chronic toxicity). - Correct Answers ✅ACUTE
TOXICITY
A substance added to a pesticide to improve its effectiveness
or safety. Same as additive.
Examples: penetrants, spreader-stickers, and wetting
agents. - Correct Answers ✅ADJUVANT
,TruGreen General Pest Management Test
7A Questions and Answers Guide
(already passed) Latest 2025
The process by which chemicals are held or bound to a
surface by physical or chemical attraction.
Clay and high organic soils tend to adsorb pesticides. -
Correct Answers ✅ADSORPTION
See pheromone. - Correct Answers ✅AGGREGATION
PHEROMONE
Amaterial stored in a container under pressure.
Fine droplets are produced when the material dissolved
in a liquid carrier is released into the air from the
pressurized container. - Correct Answers ✅AEROSOL
Relatively simple plants that contain chlorophyll
and are photosynthetic. - Correct Answers ✅ALGAE
Apesticide used to kill or inhibit algae. - Correct Answers
✅ALGICIDE
A device attached to the
filling hose that prevents backflow or back-siphoning
from a spray tank into a water source. - Correct Answers
✅ANTI-SIPHONING DEVICE
,TruGreen General Pest Management Test
7A Questions and Answers Guide
(already passed) Latest 2025
A chemical that prevents normal
blood clotting—the active ingredient in some rodenticides. -
Correct Answers ✅ANTICOAGULANT
A treatment used to counteract the effects
of pesticide poisoning or some other poison in the body. -
Correct Answers ✅ANTIDOTE
A wingless arthropod with two body
regions and four pairs of jointed legs. Spiders, ticks, and
mites are in the class Arachnida. - Correct Answers
✅ARACHNID
An invertebrate animal characterized
by a jointed body and limbs and usually a hard body covering
that is molted at intervals. For example, insects,
mites, and crayfish are in the phylum Arthropoda. - Correct
Answers ✅ARTHROPOD
A substance or device that will lure
pests to a trap or poison bait. - Correct Answers
✅ATTRACTANT
, TruGreen General Pest Management Test
7A Questions and Answers Guide
(already passed) Latest 2025
A pesticide used to kill or repel birds. Birds
are in the class Aves. - Correct Answers ✅AVICIDE
Microscopic organisms, some of which are
capable of producing diseases in plants and animals.
Others are beneficial. - Correct Answers ✅BACTERIA
Chemical used to control bacteria. - Correct Answers
✅BACTERICIDE
Afood or other substance used to attract a pest to
a pesticide or to a trap. - Correct Answers ✅BAIT
Application of a pesticide
in a strip alongside or around a structure, a portion of a
structure, or any object. - Correct Answers ✅BARRIER
APPLICATION
An insect that is useful or helpful
to humans; usually insect parasites, predators, pollinators,
etc. - Correct Answers ✅BENEFICIAL INSECT
