TRUGREEN PESTICIDE CERTIFICATION 6,3A,3B
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ ACARICIDE. Answer: A pesticide used to control mites and
ticks. Amiticide is an acaricide.
◉ ACTIVE INGREDIENT. Answer: The chemical or chemicals in a
pesticide responsible for killing, poisoning, or repelling
the pest. Listed separately in the ingredient statement.
◉ ACUTE TOXICITY. Answer: The capacity of a pesticide to cause
injury within 24 hours following exposure. LD50 and LC50
are common indicators of the degree of acute toxicity.
(See also chronic toxicity).
◉ ADJUVANT. Answer: A substance added to a pesticide to
improve its effectiveness or safety. Same as additive.
Examples: penetrants, spreader-stickers, and wetting
agents.
,◉ ADSORPTION. Answer: The process by which chemicals are
held or bound to a surface by physical or chemical attraction.
Clay and high organic soils tend to adsorb pesticides.
◉ AGGREGATION PHEROMONE. Answer: See pheromone.
◉ AEROSOL. Answer: Amaterial stored in a container under pressure.
Fine droplets are produced when the material dissolved
in a liquid carrier is released into the air from the
pressurized container.
◉ ALGAE. Answer: Relatively simple plants that contain chlorophyll
and are photosynthetic.
◉ ALGICIDE. Answer: Apesticide used to kill or inhibit algae.
◉ ANTI-SIPHONING DEVICE. Answer: A device attached to the
filling hose that prevents backflow or back-siphoning
from a spray tank into a water source.
◉ ANTICOAGULANT. Answer: A chemical that prevents normal
blood clotting—the active ingredient in some rodenticides.
,◉ ANTIDOTE. Answer: A treatment used to counteract the effects
of pesticide poisoning or some other poison in the body.
◉ ARACHNID. Answer: A wingless arthropod with two body
regions and four pairs of jointed legs. Spiders, ticks, and
mites are in the class Arachnida.
◉ ARTHROPOD. Answer: An invertebrate animal characterized
by a jointed body and limbs and usually a hard body covering
that is molted at intervals. For example, insects,
mites, and crayfish are in the phylum Arthropoda.
◉ ATTRACTANT. Answer: A substance or device that will lure
pests to a trap or poison bait.
◉ AVICIDE. Answer: A pesticide used to kill or repel birds. Birds
are in the class Aves.
◉ BACTERIA. Answer: Microscopic organisms, some of which are
capable of producing diseases in plants and animals.
Others are beneficial.
, ◉ BACTERICIDE. Answer: Chemical used to control bacteria.
◉ BAIT. Answer: Afood or other substance used to attract a pest to
a pesticide or to a trap.
◉ BARRIER APPLICATION. Answer: Application of a pesticide
in a strip alongside or around a structure, a portion of a
structure, or any object.
◉ BENEFICIAL INSECT. Answer: An insect that is useful or helpful
to humans; usually insect parasites, predators, pollinators,
etc.
◉ BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. Answer: Control of pests using
predators, parasites, and disease-causing organisms.
May be naturally occurring or introduced.
◉ BIOMAGNIFICATION. Answer: The process whereby one
organism accumulates chemical residues in higher concentrations
from organisms it consumes.
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ ACARICIDE. Answer: A pesticide used to control mites and
ticks. Amiticide is an acaricide.
◉ ACTIVE INGREDIENT. Answer: The chemical or chemicals in a
pesticide responsible for killing, poisoning, or repelling
the pest. Listed separately in the ingredient statement.
◉ ACUTE TOXICITY. Answer: The capacity of a pesticide to cause
injury within 24 hours following exposure. LD50 and LC50
are common indicators of the degree of acute toxicity.
(See also chronic toxicity).
◉ ADJUVANT. Answer: A substance added to a pesticide to
improve its effectiveness or safety. Same as additive.
Examples: penetrants, spreader-stickers, and wetting
agents.
,◉ ADSORPTION. Answer: The process by which chemicals are
held or bound to a surface by physical or chemical attraction.
Clay and high organic soils tend to adsorb pesticides.
◉ AGGREGATION PHEROMONE. Answer: See pheromone.
◉ AEROSOL. Answer: Amaterial stored in a container under pressure.
Fine droplets are produced when the material dissolved
in a liquid carrier is released into the air from the
pressurized container.
◉ ALGAE. Answer: Relatively simple plants that contain chlorophyll
and are photosynthetic.
◉ ALGICIDE. Answer: Apesticide used to kill or inhibit algae.
◉ ANTI-SIPHONING DEVICE. Answer: A device attached to the
filling hose that prevents backflow or back-siphoning
from a spray tank into a water source.
◉ ANTICOAGULANT. Answer: A chemical that prevents normal
blood clotting—the active ingredient in some rodenticides.
,◉ ANTIDOTE. Answer: A treatment used to counteract the effects
of pesticide poisoning or some other poison in the body.
◉ ARACHNID. Answer: A wingless arthropod with two body
regions and four pairs of jointed legs. Spiders, ticks, and
mites are in the class Arachnida.
◉ ARTHROPOD. Answer: An invertebrate animal characterized
by a jointed body and limbs and usually a hard body covering
that is molted at intervals. For example, insects,
mites, and crayfish are in the phylum Arthropoda.
◉ ATTRACTANT. Answer: A substance or device that will lure
pests to a trap or poison bait.
◉ AVICIDE. Answer: A pesticide used to kill or repel birds. Birds
are in the class Aves.
◉ BACTERIA. Answer: Microscopic organisms, some of which are
capable of producing diseases in plants and animals.
Others are beneficial.
, ◉ BACTERICIDE. Answer: Chemical used to control bacteria.
◉ BAIT. Answer: Afood or other substance used to attract a pest to
a pesticide or to a trap.
◉ BARRIER APPLICATION. Answer: Application of a pesticide
in a strip alongside or around a structure, a portion of a
structure, or any object.
◉ BENEFICIAL INSECT. Answer: An insect that is useful or helpful
to humans; usually insect parasites, predators, pollinators,
etc.
◉ BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. Answer: Control of pests using
predators, parasites, and disease-causing organisms.
May be naturally occurring or introduced.
◉ BIOMAGNIFICATION. Answer: The process whereby one
organism accumulates chemical residues in higher concentrations
from organisms it consumes.
