Maintenance Pest Control Chpt 1 Exam
2025 With 100% Correct Answers
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),