NJ CORE EXAMINATION PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the full name and acronym of federal agency mandated to regulate
pesticides? - ✔✔Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
✔✔What is the full name and acronym for the law EPA uses to manage pesticides? -
✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
✔✔What are regulations? - ✔✔They are interpretations of the law and have the force of
law
✔✔Define reentry time. - ✔✔It is the time immediately following application of a
pesticide to a treated area when unprotected workers may not enter.
✔✔Which federal agency sets food tolerances for pesticides? Which federal agency
enforces these tolerances? - ✔✔EPA sets food tolerances; FDA enforces food
tolerances
✔✔FIFRA allows states to establish standards. What kind of standards? - ✔✔More strict
✔✔What is the purpose of the tolerance program? - ✔✔It is to ensure that US
consumers are not exposed to unsafe food-pesticide residue levels
✔✔The regulations interpreting the Transportation Safety Act are contained in 49 CFR.
What do these regulations do? - ✔✔These regulations cover any safety aspect of
transporting hazardous materials, including the packing, repacking, placarding, and
routing such materials.
✔✔Which federal agency determines what species are endangered? - ✔✔Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS) of the Department of the Interior
✔✔Who ultimately beats the responsibility of protecting endangered species from
pesticides? - ✔✔You, the applicator.
✔✔The inherent ability of a pesticide to poison organisms is called...
A. danger
B. toxicity
C. hazard
D. risk - ✔✔B. toxicity
✔✔In an LD50 equal to 68 mg/kg the 68 milligrams refers to the...
, A. pesticide
B. soil sample
C. test organism
D. food sample - ✔✔A. pesticide
✔✔The oral LD50 level which represents a highly toxic pesticide is...
A. 640 mg/kg
B. 5800 mg/kg
C. 46 mg/kg
D. 380 mg/kg - ✔✔46 mg/kg
✔✔The probability of a pesticide causing adverse effects to an organism is called...
A. warning
B. toxicity
C. hazard
D. accident - ✔✔C. hazard
✔✔(T/F) It is best to avoid the use of those pesticides which can accumulate and cause
undesirable effects in the bodies of desirable organisms - ✔✔True
✔✔(T/F) All pesticides can pass through the skin to enter the blood and significantly
affect the nervous system of man - ✔✔False
✔✔The kind of toxicity that results from small, repeated exposures to a pesticide over a
period of time is called...
A. low toxicity
B. acute toxicity
C. high toxicity
D. chronic toxicity - ✔✔D. chronic toxicity
✔✔The signal word on a pesticide label indicates the pesticide's....
A. effectiveness
B. toxicity
C. compatibility
D. formulation - ✔✔B. toxicity
✔✔(T/F) Low toxicity is indicated by low LD50 - ✔✔False
✔✔(T/F) Acute toxicity is a measure of how poisonous a pesticide is to an animal (or
man) from a single exposure - ✔✔True
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the full name and acronym of federal agency mandated to regulate
pesticides? - ✔✔Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
✔✔What is the full name and acronym for the law EPA uses to manage pesticides? -
✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
✔✔What are regulations? - ✔✔They are interpretations of the law and have the force of
law
✔✔Define reentry time. - ✔✔It is the time immediately following application of a
pesticide to a treated area when unprotected workers may not enter.
✔✔Which federal agency sets food tolerances for pesticides? Which federal agency
enforces these tolerances? - ✔✔EPA sets food tolerances; FDA enforces food
tolerances
✔✔FIFRA allows states to establish standards. What kind of standards? - ✔✔More strict
✔✔What is the purpose of the tolerance program? - ✔✔It is to ensure that US
consumers are not exposed to unsafe food-pesticide residue levels
✔✔The regulations interpreting the Transportation Safety Act are contained in 49 CFR.
What do these regulations do? - ✔✔These regulations cover any safety aspect of
transporting hazardous materials, including the packing, repacking, placarding, and
routing such materials.
✔✔Which federal agency determines what species are endangered? - ✔✔Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS) of the Department of the Interior
✔✔Who ultimately beats the responsibility of protecting endangered species from
pesticides? - ✔✔You, the applicator.
✔✔The inherent ability of a pesticide to poison organisms is called...
A. danger
B. toxicity
C. hazard
D. risk - ✔✔B. toxicity
✔✔In an LD50 equal to 68 mg/kg the 68 milligrams refers to the...
, A. pesticide
B. soil sample
C. test organism
D. food sample - ✔✔A. pesticide
✔✔The oral LD50 level which represents a highly toxic pesticide is...
A. 640 mg/kg
B. 5800 mg/kg
C. 46 mg/kg
D. 380 mg/kg - ✔✔46 mg/kg
✔✔The probability of a pesticide causing adverse effects to an organism is called...
A. warning
B. toxicity
C. hazard
D. accident - ✔✔C. hazard
✔✔(T/F) It is best to avoid the use of those pesticides which can accumulate and cause
undesirable effects in the bodies of desirable organisms - ✔✔True
✔✔(T/F) All pesticides can pass through the skin to enter the blood and significantly
affect the nervous system of man - ✔✔False
✔✔The kind of toxicity that results from small, repeated exposures to a pesticide over a
period of time is called...
A. low toxicity
B. acute toxicity
C. high toxicity
D. chronic toxicity - ✔✔D. chronic toxicity
✔✔The signal word on a pesticide label indicates the pesticide's....
A. effectiveness
B. toxicity
C. compatibility
D. formulation - ✔✔B. toxicity
✔✔(T/F) Low toxicity is indicated by low LD50 - ✔✔False
✔✔(T/F) Acute toxicity is a measure of how poisonous a pesticide is to an animal (or
man) from a single exposure - ✔✔True
