QAL "B" License-Landscape Maintenance Pest Control Chpt 1 Exam Test Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct

QAL "B" License-Landscape Maintenance Pest Control Chpt 1 Exam Test Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct How are fungi spread? (8-9) - ANSWER Wind, rain, irrigation water, propagation (grafting and pollenization, seeds, insects, people, equipment, cultural practices Fungal Infections enter a plant by: - ANSWER wounds and natural opening and penetrating the outer surface Environmental conditions that promote fungal growth? - ANSWER high humidity, combined water and warm temperatures Bacterial Disease symptoms? - ANSWER wilts, blights, cankers, galls, leaf spots, soft rots, scabs, and systemic disorders Symptoms of Viral Disease? - ANSWER Change in coloration (leaves), webbing of veins, flower petal discoloration Viruses are spread by: - ANSWER pruning, grafting, propagation. Also spread by mites, thrips, whiteflies, and leafhoppers Abiotic Disorder Definition: - ANSWER Disorders in plants brought on by external factors such as weather, too little or too much water, nutrient imbalances, chemicals, and other causes. Symptoms of Abiotic Disease: - ANSWER Poor growth, yellow or discolored and dead foliage; deformed and stunted leaves, shoots and flowers; deformed or rotted fruit; dead or dying plants or leaves Four stages of complete insect metamorphoses (4): - ANSWER egg, larva, pupa, adult Insects that undergo a complete metamorphosis: - ANSWER moths, butterflies, beetles, ants, bees, and wasps Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae - ANSWER Spiders Class: Arachnida / Order: Acari - ANSWER Mites Class: Insecta / Order: Orthopterans - ANSWER Crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, katydids Class: Insecta / Order: Dermaptera - ANSWER Earwigs (chewing mouthparts) Class: Insecta / Order: Thysanoptera - ANSWER Thrips (sucking, rasping mouthparts) Beneficial: eats aphids & mites Class: Insecta / Order: Heteroptera - ANSWER (True Bugs) Bed Bugs, plant bugs, damsel bugs, Assasin bugs Class: Insecta / Order: Homopterans - ANSWER Aphids, Psyllids, Leafhoppers, cicadas, whiteflies, mealybugs, scales, phylloxeras, spittlebugs, treehoppers (All have piercing-sucking mouth parts) Class:Insecta / Order: Coleoptera - ANSWER Beetles, weevils, wood borers (chewing mouth parts) (Some beetles prey on other insects) Class: Insecta / Order: Lepidoptera - ANSWER Butterflies, moths, skippers Class: Insecta / Order: Hymenopterans - ANSWER Bees, Wasps, ants, sawflies, horntails Four ways that weeds compete with the desirable plants: - ANSWER water, nutrients, light, reduced visual beauty Name six pests to landscape (besides weeds) - ANSWER insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, viruses, & nematodes Pests that are vertebrates: - ANSWER rodents that make burrows, mounds, & chew on roots, bark, & leaves Four main groups of landscape pests: - ANSWER Weeds, invertebrates, vertebrates, plant pathogens Weeds are classified as: - ANSWER undesirable plants Invertebrate pests are: - ANSWER insects, spiders, mites, nematodes, snails, slugs Vertebrate pests are: - ANSWER rodents, other mammals, birds Plant pathogens are: - ANSWER bacteria, viruses, fungi, other microorganisms Ways that weeds reproduce: (2) - ANSWER many seeds (dormant for up to 20 years), vegetative structures (stolons, rhizomes, tubers), Two main classifications of weeds: - ANSWER dicots & monocots Definition of Dicot: - ANSWER Broadleaves, produces two seedling leaves (cotyledons) Parasitic Dicots: (2) - ANSWER Mistletoe and dodder Invertebrates are: - ANSWER animals without backbones Arthropods: - ANSWER "Jointed foot" external skeleton and jointed body parts (insects, spiders, mites, and their relatives) Biotic Disease Factors: - ANSWER Pathogens that are spread form one host to another. Three landscape biotic pathogens: - ANSWER bacteria, fungi, & viruses Fungi characteristics: - ANSWER Can live off both living and dead plant tissue Fungi vegetative body is called: - ANSWER Mycelium Major form of fungal reproduction: - ANSWER Spores Symptoms of Fungi disease: (6) - ANSWER Powdery mildew, downy mildew, root & stem rot, sooty mold, slime molds