FLORIDA RIGHT- OF - WAY PEST CONTROL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
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A Right-of Way- Pest Control Restricted use pesticides
applicator is a person who
applies
The practical knowledge Category certification standards
thta Right- of - Way Pest
Control applicators must
demonstrate for certification
is based upon the
The location to take County extension offices that offer the service
restricted use pesticide
certification exams is
Only approved for purchase and use by certified
A restricted use pesticide is
one that is applicators and those under their direct supervision
What is the main reason for To protect sensitive crops and plants from injury
Florida have its Organo-
Auxin Herbicide Rule
A biological phenomenon by which an organism produces one or
Allelopathy more
biochemicals that influence the growth, survivial, and
reproduction of other organisms
Aesthetic A relative value of visual quality
Combining appropriate pest control tactics into a single
Integrated Pest Management plan to reduce pests and their damage to an
(IPM)
acceptable level while minimizing adverse effects to
the
environment
A preventative maintenance program that integrates
Integrated Vegetation pest control tactics to promote the survivial of one
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Management (IVM) group of desirable but compatible plants, while
selectively
controlling undesirable plants
What are Rights-of-Way? streets, highways, roads, airports, railways, utility lines, substations
and pipelines
Improved highway pavement mangement, improved
What does the IVM program highway safety, railroad vegetation management,
include?
preservation and enhancement of scenic resources,
providing wildlife habitat
What is the major Trees
vegetation problem in the
safety recover zones of
highways that are the single
greatest cause of fatalities
from vehicle collision with
fixed objects?
Early detection of undesirable plants and helps to note
Monitoring
the effectiveness of previous control procedures
What are the IVM control Biological, Cultural, Mechanical, and Chemical
methods?
Biological Control Relies on living organism to control undesired vegetation
Controls weeds indirectly, include revegetation with
Cultural Control
native plant materials , such as wildflower or
perennial grasses
What are some cultural fertilizing, lime, mulches and fire
control methods?
Mechanical Control Methods Machines, equipment, or physical barriers to control weeds
Chemical control Utilize herbicides or plant growth regulators
What IVM Method uses Mechanical
mowers?
Which of the following are Highways, Utility lines, pipelines, railways and substations
examples of right- of -
way?
Which IVM control method Chemical
uses 2,4-D to control
broadleaf weeds?
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Usually conducted by state and federal agencies, relies on living
Which of the following
organisms to
pertain to biological control
control unwanted weed species, and when successful, it
in IVM?
is usually inexpensive to maintain
Which IVM method uses Cultural
mulches, fertilizers and fires?
Weed that grows from seed, matures, and produces
Annual Weed
seed for the next generation in one year or less
Weed that grows from seed and develops a heavy root and
Biennial weed
compact cluster of
leaves the first year; then in the second year, it matures ,
produces seed , and dies
Chlorophyll Green pigment found in plants that is critical for photosynthesis
The first leaf , or one of the first pairs of leaves,
Cotyledons
produced by the seed of flowerig plants. They are not
considered to be true leaves
A plant which USDA prohibits movement inot and
Federal Noxious Weed
throughout the United States without a permit from
the agency
Perennial weed Plant that normally lives more than two years
The living tissue in plants that functions primarily to
Phloem
transport metabolic compounds from the site of
synthesis or storage to the site of utilization
The manufacturing of sugar from water and carbon
Photosynthesis
dioxide in the presence of green chlorophyll with
sunling as the energy source
The set of the metabolic reactions and processes that take place
Respiration
to convert
biochemical energy from nutrients into energy , and then release
waste products
Horizontal , underground plant stem capable of
Rhizome
producing the shoot and root systems of a new plant
A prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the
Stolon
ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips
or nodes
Stomata Pores foudn in plant leaves and stems that are used for gas
exchange
Transpiration The evaporation of water from plants
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