GENERAL PEST CONTROL SUBCATEGORY TEST, GENERAL AND STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL 7A/CORE, GENERAL STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL 7A, MS GENERAL STANDARDS PLUS MS GRC QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

GENERAL PEST CONTROL SUBCATEGORY TEST, GENERAL AND STRUCTURAL
PEST CONTROL 7A/CORE, GENERAL STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL 7A, MS
GENERAL STANDARDS PLUS MS GRC QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS




Define a pest in simple terms - An unwanted organism
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Pest populations are part of an ecosystem. What following elements are included in an eco
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system? xz




A. Populations and a community
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B. A community and biological and physical supports
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C. Populations and biological and physical supports
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D. Populations, a community, and biological and physical supports - D
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In infested apartments, pest infestations are evenly distributed?
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A. True
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B. False - B
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In a simple sequence of methods, which of the following is the first method or activity a pest
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control technician should do? xz xz xz




A. Pesticide Application
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B. Habitat alteration
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C. Inspection
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D. Follow up - C
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Which of the following are not integrated pest management components, goals or activities
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:
A. Monitoring
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B. Pesticide Application
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C. Preventative Spraying
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D. Recordkeeping
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E. Total Pest Elimination - C and E
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The pest management style of pest control, more than the other styles, emphasizes:
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A. Safe Pesticide application
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B. The reduction of pests to a tolerable number
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C. Inspection
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D. Client Communication - B
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New sprayers are well calibrated until they have been used one season
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A. True
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B. False - B
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Hand held sprayers can be calibrated if the following is known:
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,A. Pressure used
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B. Amount of liquid used
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C. Time elapsed per liquid used
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D. Area sprayed per amount of liquid used
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E. All of these
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F. None of these - E
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Fogging fills a room volume including cracks, crevices and cabinets.
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A. True xz




B. False - B
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High Pressure must be maintained in hand held sprayers to be effective.
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A. True xz




B. False - B
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If a sprayer malfunctions,_______________
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A. Repair it immediately
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B. Increase pressure by pumping
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C. Release pressure and remove it to a repair area
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D. Use very soft and thin wire to clear the nozzle after releasing pressure - C
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Equipment safety is best maintained by ________. xz xz xz xz xz xz




A. Daily Rinsing
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B. Daily hose inspection
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C. Scheduled cleaning
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D. All of these - D
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The responsibility of the environmental protection Agency (EPA) is to ________.
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A. Regulate Pesticide use
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B. Regulate pesticide applicators
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C. Protect public health and the environment
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D. enforce Fifra - C
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Pest Control applicators may be certified in either of two classifications.
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a. Private and commercial
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B. Fumigation and non fumigation
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C. Urban and agriculture
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D. Certified and non-certified - A
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Pesticide registration decisions are based on the demonstration that the use of a pesticide
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will not result in "Unreasonable human health or environmental effects". The law that mand
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ates that is called the ________. -
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FIFRA, The Federal Insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
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The state plan that regulates pesticide applicators and their certification is approved and ev
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aluated by ________. xz xz

,A. FDA
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B. USDA
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C. EPAxz




D. OSHA - C
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The cockroach that requires the most control effort is the _______.
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A. Asian
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B. American
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C. German
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D. Australian - C
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American cockroaches like an environment that is
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A. slightly cool, moist
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B. very warm, moist
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C. hot, dry
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D. lukewarm, average humidity - B
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Oriental cockroach populations consist mostly of _____ in the winter.
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A. Adults
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B. nymphs
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C. eggs
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D. pupae - A
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Cockroaches need _________ to be successful. xz xz xz xz xz




A. food, moisture, harborage
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B. food, moisture, open spaces
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C. warmth, food, cracks,
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D. cracks, crevices, food - A
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Oriental cockroaches prefer a _________ environment
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A. moist
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B. Warm
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C. High
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D. Small - A
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Brown-banded cockroaches prefer a _______ environment xz xz xz xz xz




a. cool
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b. very warm
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c. sanitary
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d. very moist - B
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Smokey brown cockroaches prefer a ______ environment
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a. open
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b. very warm
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c. very moist
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d. high - C
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, German cockroaches have xz xz




A. Two bands across their thorax
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B. Two stripes on their thorax
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C. Light markings on their thorax
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D. Short wings - B
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Ants and termites are both closely related social insects.
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A. True
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B. False - B
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The ant species that almost always has its colony inside is _____
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a. carpenter ant
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b. pharaoh ant
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c. fire ant
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d. odorous house ant - B
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Carpenter ants make galleries in wood which is also one of their principal foods.
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A. True
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B. False - B
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The ant caste system consists of
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A. workers, drones, soldiers
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b. soldiers, workers, reproductives
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c. male and female reproductives and workers
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d. larvae, pupae, adults - C
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Ants found inside a structure always Come from a colony that is located inside
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A. true
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B. false - B
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Ants forage for _______ to sustain themselves and the colony
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A. honeydew, greases, sugars and insects
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B. Wood
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C. Honeydew alone
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D. Pheromones - A
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Some common stored product pests that attack whole grains and chew through the seed co
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at are ________
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a. rice and granary weevils
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B. red and confused flour beetles
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C. Psocids and grain mites
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D. Sawtoothed and merchant grain beetles - A
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Pheromones are used in xz xz xz xz




A. sprays
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