Landscape Maintenance QAL EXAM
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2025
Where does a maintenance gardener spray?<correct answers>On or around
ornamental plants, turf, fruit trees, shrubs, and small fruits and berries. Areas typically
include homes, businesses, cemeteries, parks, malls and places with indoor plants.
Work often around human activities.
Why does a maintenance gardener spray?<correct answers>To control a pest so that it
does not compete with other plants for nutrition, and for aesthetics.
What is a weed?<correct answers>A weed is a plant that is not desired in a landscape.
Weeds also compete with desired plants for water, nutrition, and space.
What is a pest?<correct answers>A pest is an organism that can cause problems in
various ways including: competing with people for food and fiber; transmitting diseases
between plants, damaging plants, and damaging structures
Why is it important to identify a pest?<correct answers>Misidentification and lack of
information about a pest could cause you to choose the wrong control method or apply
the control at the wrong time.
True or False? Pesticide labels refer to most pests by their common names.<correct
answers>True, like housefly, roof rat, american cockroach
Name four stages of insect growth changes.<correct answers>Eggs, larval, pupal, and
adult
What stage of growth are weeds most readily controlled?<correct answers>Seedling
Stage
True or False? Most perennial weeds are not susceptible to herbicides during early
bloom stages.<correct answers>True
What is the difference between a summer annual and a winter annual?<correct
answers>Seeds of a summer annual sprout in spring, and the plants produce seeds
and die in the summer or fall.
Seeds of a winter annual sprout in the fall, and the plant produces seeds in the spring
and usually die before summer.
Name one summer annual and name one winter annual.<correct
answers>Puncturevine; Annual bluegrass
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2025
Where does a maintenance gardener spray?<correct answers>On or around
ornamental plants, turf, fruit trees, shrubs, and small fruits and berries. Areas typically
include homes, businesses, cemeteries, parks, malls and places with indoor plants.
Work often around human activities.
Why does a maintenance gardener spray?<correct answers>To control a pest so that it
does not compete with other plants for nutrition, and for aesthetics.
What is a weed?<correct answers>A weed is a plant that is not desired in a landscape.
Weeds also compete with desired plants for water, nutrition, and space.
What is a pest?<correct answers>A pest is an organism that can cause problems in
various ways including: competing with people for food and fiber; transmitting diseases
between plants, damaging plants, and damaging structures
Why is it important to identify a pest?<correct answers>Misidentification and lack of
information about a pest could cause you to choose the wrong control method or apply
the control at the wrong time.
True or False? Pesticide labels refer to most pests by their common names.<correct
answers>True, like housefly, roof rat, american cockroach
Name four stages of insect growth changes.<correct answers>Eggs, larval, pupal, and
adult
What stage of growth are weeds most readily controlled?<correct answers>Seedling
Stage
True or False? Most perennial weeds are not susceptible to herbicides during early
bloom stages.<correct answers>True
What is the difference between a summer annual and a winter annual?<correct
answers>Seeds of a summer annual sprout in spring, and the plants produce seeds
and die in the summer or fall.
Seeds of a winter annual sprout in the fall, and the plant produces seeds in the spring
and usually die before summer.
Name one summer annual and name one winter annual.<correct
answers>Puncturevine; Annual bluegrass
