NC PESTICIDE APPLICATION LICENSE
PRACTICE EXAM Questions and Answers
Latest Update 2025 TOP RATED A+
What is important about a Pesticide Label
Correct Answer: People who don't follow it are BREAKING THE LAW
What does the EPA do?
Correct Answer: Re-evaluate older pesticides
Review every pesticide on a 15 year cycle
Establish safety rules for workers
What can STATES do to regulate pesticides?
Correct Answer: They must follow EPA guidelines at a minimum
They can make even harder guidelines
Is there a special ACT that relates to food and feed products?
Correct Answer: Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act established tolerance levels
for food - how much residue of a pesticide is allowed
,Food Quality Protection Act
Correct Answer: Requires the EPA to establish a tolerance low enough that no harm
can come to humans or environment
Hazard Communication Standards Act
Correct Answer: Requires employers to list all hazardous chemicals in the workplace,
obtain material safety data on each one, ensure containers are labeled, train workers
how to deal with materials
NC Pesticide Law if 1971
Correct Answer: established management program designed to regulate the
registration, handling, storage and disposal of pesticides
manage licensing for all pesticide users (EXCEPT Structural - they are handled by
another law)
How should you STORE pesticides?
Correct Answer: Tightly sealed
labeled
dry
Not around food
Not around combustible (FIRE Causing) materials
What does the NC Pesticide Board do?
, Correct Answer: Adopts regulations that detail acceptable pesticide use and licensing
What is a VERTEBRATE?
Correct Answer: An animal with jointed backbones - mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, fish
Can a VERTEBRATE be a PEST?
Correct Answer: Yes if it brings injury to plants, humans, domestic animals, or
substances
If the Pesticide Board thinks a vertebrate is a pest what do they do?
Correct Answer: Contact Wildlife resources - but if they disagree, no pesticide can be
used
Vertebrate Pests that it is OK to use pesticides on
Correct Answer: black or roof rat, Norway rat, pine vole, house mouse, boat-tailed
grackle, pigeon, brown-headed cowbird, common grackle, English sparrow, red-wing
and common black bird, gulls, starling
List the 4 Main Groups of Pests
Correct Answer: Weeds
Inveterbrates (insects)
Disease Agents or pathogens (bacteria, fungus)
PRACTICE EXAM Questions and Answers
Latest Update 2025 TOP RATED A+
What is important about a Pesticide Label
Correct Answer: People who don't follow it are BREAKING THE LAW
What does the EPA do?
Correct Answer: Re-evaluate older pesticides
Review every pesticide on a 15 year cycle
Establish safety rules for workers
What can STATES do to regulate pesticides?
Correct Answer: They must follow EPA guidelines at a minimum
They can make even harder guidelines
Is there a special ACT that relates to food and feed products?
Correct Answer: Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act established tolerance levels
for food - how much residue of a pesticide is allowed
,Food Quality Protection Act
Correct Answer: Requires the EPA to establish a tolerance low enough that no harm
can come to humans or environment
Hazard Communication Standards Act
Correct Answer: Requires employers to list all hazardous chemicals in the workplace,
obtain material safety data on each one, ensure containers are labeled, train workers
how to deal with materials
NC Pesticide Law if 1971
Correct Answer: established management program designed to regulate the
registration, handling, storage and disposal of pesticides
manage licensing for all pesticide users (EXCEPT Structural - they are handled by
another law)
How should you STORE pesticides?
Correct Answer: Tightly sealed
labeled
dry
Not around food
Not around combustible (FIRE Causing) materials
What does the NC Pesticide Board do?
, Correct Answer: Adopts regulations that detail acceptable pesticide use and licensing
What is a VERTEBRATE?
Correct Answer: An animal with jointed backbones - mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, fish
Can a VERTEBRATE be a PEST?
Correct Answer: Yes if it brings injury to plants, humans, domestic animals, or
substances
If the Pesticide Board thinks a vertebrate is a pest what do they do?
Correct Answer: Contact Wildlife resources - but if they disagree, no pesticide can be
used
Vertebrate Pests that it is OK to use pesticides on
Correct Answer: black or roof rat, Norway rat, pine vole, house mouse, boat-tailed
grackle, pigeon, brown-headed cowbird, common grackle, English sparrow, red-wing
and common black bird, gulls, starling
List the 4 Main Groups of Pests
Correct Answer: Weeds
Inveterbrates (insects)
Disease Agents or pathogens (bacteria, fungus)
