Pesticide applicators License Exam
Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Action threshold
Answer: the pest level at which some type of pest management action must be taken
2. Bioaccumulation
Answer: The accumulation of toxic substances, such as pesticides, or other organic
chemicals in an organism
3. Biomagnification
Answer: The tendency for certain pesticides to progressively become more concentrated in
each type of organism when moving from the bottom to the top organism within a food
chain
4. Contact pesticide
Answer: Pesticide that is not absorbed systemically by treated plants or animals. These
pesticides must directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents to be effective
5. Economic threshold
Answer: The level where the economic losses caused by pest damage, if the pest
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,population continued to grow, would be greater than the cost of controlling the pests
6. Eradication
Answer: One of the three primary pest control goals that refers to the total elimination of
a pest from a designated area
7. Integrated Pest management
Answer: The coordinated use of pest and environmental information and available pest
control methods to prevent unacceptable levels of damage by the most economical
means with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment.
8. Key pest
Answer: A pest that causes major damage on a regular basis
9. Mode of Action
Answer: How the pesticide works - specific system(s) in the pest that are affected by the
pesticide
10. Occasional pest
Answer: A pest that causes damage only once in a while because of its life cycle or
environmental influences, or as a result of human activities
11. Persistance
Answer: length of time a pesticide remains active to control pests
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, 12. Pesticide
Answer: Any material that is applied to plants, the soil, water, harvested crops, structures,
clothing and furnishings, or animals to kill, attract, repel or regulate or interrupt the growth
and mating of pests or to regulate plant growth
13. Pesticide resistance
Answer: the ability of an insect, fungus, weed, rodent, or other pest to tolerate a
pesticide that once controlled it
14. Prevention
Answer: one of the three primary pest control goals that strives to inhibit the onset of a pest
outbreak
15. Quarantine
Answer: regulatory method to control the introduction and dissemination of pests into new
areas
16. Residual pesticide
Answer: pesticide that controls pests for weeks, months or even years
17. Secondary pest
Answer: a pest that becomes a problem when a key pest is controlled or eliminated
18. Selectivity
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Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Action threshold
Answer: the pest level at which some type of pest management action must be taken
2. Bioaccumulation
Answer: The accumulation of toxic substances, such as pesticides, or other organic
chemicals in an organism
3. Biomagnification
Answer: The tendency for certain pesticides to progressively become more concentrated in
each type of organism when moving from the bottom to the top organism within a food
chain
4. Contact pesticide
Answer: Pesticide that is not absorbed systemically by treated plants or animals. These
pesticides must directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents to be effective
5. Economic threshold
Answer: The level where the economic losses caused by pest damage, if the pest
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,population continued to grow, would be greater than the cost of controlling the pests
6. Eradication
Answer: One of the three primary pest control goals that refers to the total elimination of
a pest from a designated area
7. Integrated Pest management
Answer: The coordinated use of pest and environmental information and available pest
control methods to prevent unacceptable levels of damage by the most economical
means with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment.
8. Key pest
Answer: A pest that causes major damage on a regular basis
9. Mode of Action
Answer: How the pesticide works - specific system(s) in the pest that are affected by the
pesticide
10. Occasional pest
Answer: A pest that causes damage only once in a while because of its life cycle or
environmental influences, or as a result of human activities
11. Persistance
Answer: length of time a pesticide remains active to control pests
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, 12. Pesticide
Answer: Any material that is applied to plants, the soil, water, harvested crops, structures,
clothing and furnishings, or animals to kill, attract, repel or regulate or interrupt the growth
and mating of pests or to regulate plant growth
13. Pesticide resistance
Answer: the ability of an insect, fungus, weed, rodent, or other pest to tolerate a
pesticide that once controlled it
14. Prevention
Answer: one of the three primary pest control goals that strives to inhibit the onset of a pest
outbreak
15. Quarantine
Answer: regulatory method to control the introduction and dissemination of pests into new
areas
16. Residual pesticide
Answer: pesticide that controls pests for weeks, months or even years
17. Secondary pest
Answer: a pest that becomes a problem when a key pest is controlled or eliminated
18. Selectivity
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