This is a Pesticide Applicator License Exam Practice Quiz! Pests are very well known to destroy crops, sometimes they destroy the whole plantation. Following this problem, Pesticide Applicators have been in demand more than ever as the farmers are responsible for all we eat each year, every day. Do you want to be an adequately licensed Pesticide applicator? Take the following quiz to ensure that you pass.
Biological control
Mechanical control
Chemical control
Biological
Mechanical
Physical/environmental modification
Modifying the environment to enhance natural enemies is a recommended practice in biological control
Biological control involves the importation of exotic pests to control natural enemies
If pesticides are part of a biological control program to control an exotic pest, it is better to apply them at the strongest label rate and to choose the more toxic pesticides
Exclusion
Trapping
Cultivation
Trapping is an important cultural control practice
Sanitation is not considered a cultural practice
Cultural practices alter the environment, the condition of the host, or the behavior of the pest to prevent or suppress an infestation
Pests that pose a serious health threat are rarely regulated by federal and state agencies.
Airports and ocean ports are monitored by pest quarantine regulatory agencies
Entry of pests across state lines is not regulated
The goal is often to maintain pest damage at economically acceptable levels
Eradication is never the goal of an IPM program
Pesticides are not included in an IPM strategy
Releasing natural enemies to help reduce pest populations
Removing from an area a pest that is a public health concern
Planting weed and disease free sod
The IPM technician needs to implement control measures below the action threshold level
The action threshold for a pest may be set at a zero pest population density
In an urban landscape, action thresholds are usually more related to econoimcs than aesthetics
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)
State restrictions on pesticides can be more liberal than those of FIFRA
Approved pesticide labels have the force of law
The EPA has the authority to remove pesticide products from the market
10 or more acres of land or 1 or more acres of water
5 or more acres of land or 1 or more acres of water
7 or more acres of land or 2 or more acres of water
For setting new standards, the FQPA considers aggregate exposures to pesticides but not cumulative exposures
The FQPA does not require review of older pesticides with established residue tolerances on food
Testing of pesticides for endocrine disruption potential is require under the FQPA
True
False
An emergency exemption
Use a restricted use pesticide
A minimum risk pesticide classification
The brand name
The chemical name
The common name
The active ingredients and the inert ingredients must be listed by chemical name.
Various manufacturers use different trade names, even though the products contain the same active ingredient.
The common names are those accepted officially by the manufacturer
To give the user an indication of the relative acute toxicity of the product to humans and animals.
Informs the user of what type of PPE to wear
Informs the user of how toxic the pesticide is to wildlife and the environment
DANGER
WARNING
CAUTION
A specific action statement
A statement of practical treatment
A route of entry statement
They are not associated with signal words
All DANGER labels contain a note to physicians describing appropriate medical procedures
Statements about inducing vomiting are not found on the label
A granular pesticide with 5 percent inert ingredients
A granular pesticide with 5 percent active ingredients
A gel pecticide with 5 percent inert ingredients
Suspension
Emulsion
Solution
Emulsifiable concentrate (EC)
Ready to use low concentrate solutions (RTU)
Ultra low volume (ULV)