TEXAS CERTIFIED APPLICATOR 2026
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT REVIEW
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS PROFESSIONAL
GUIDE
◉ A pesticide a vapor rises and can be carried from the treated area
by current is known as?
Answer: Vapor drift
◉ Define volatile
Answer: A pesticide that vaporizes easily
◉ Small liquid droplets under _______ microns tend to drift more than
large droplets**
Answer: 100 microns
◉ Pesticides may enter groundwater directly, through spillage or
back siphoning as an example of?
Answer: Point source
◉ When rain or irrigation water carries pesticide away, either mixed
in the water or bound to soil this is known as?
, Answer: Runoff
◉ When a pesticide dissolves easily flows with water through the
soil this is known as?
Answer: Leaching
◉ Pesticide poisoning has symptoms similar to?**
Answer: Heat exhaustion, food poisoning, hangover, asthma
◉ The ______ of a substance is it its capacity to injure a living system*
Answer: Toxicity
◉ Any kind of contact with pesticide is known as?
Answer: Exposure
◉ Define acute toxicity
Answer: Refers to how poisonous a pesticide is after short term
exposure.
◉ Define chronic toxicity
Answer: Is the delayed poisonous effect from exposure to a
substance
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT REVIEW
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS PROFESSIONAL
GUIDE
◉ A pesticide a vapor rises and can be carried from the treated area
by current is known as?
Answer: Vapor drift
◉ Define volatile
Answer: A pesticide that vaporizes easily
◉ Small liquid droplets under _______ microns tend to drift more than
large droplets**
Answer: 100 microns
◉ Pesticides may enter groundwater directly, through spillage or
back siphoning as an example of?
Answer: Point source
◉ When rain or irrigation water carries pesticide away, either mixed
in the water or bound to soil this is known as?
, Answer: Runoff
◉ When a pesticide dissolves easily flows with water through the
soil this is known as?
Answer: Leaching
◉ Pesticide poisoning has symptoms similar to?**
Answer: Heat exhaustion, food poisoning, hangover, asthma
◉ The ______ of a substance is it its capacity to injure a living system*
Answer: Toxicity
◉ Any kind of contact with pesticide is known as?
Answer: Exposure
◉ Define acute toxicity
Answer: Refers to how poisonous a pesticide is after short term
exposure.
◉ Define chronic toxicity
Answer: Is the delayed poisonous effect from exposure to a
substance
