QAL "B" License-Landscape Maintenance Pest Control Chpt 1

QAL "B" License-Landscape
Maintenance Pest Control
Chapter1 Exam With Correct
Answers2025
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),

Two main classifications of weeds:<correct answers>dicots & monocots