MASSACHUSETTS PESTICIDE APPLICATOR CORE 2024 EXAM/
MASSACHUSETTS PESTICIDE TEST DETAILED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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How many days before spraying a school do parents, students, and staff need to be notified? - ANSWER- 48hours before and 72 hours after
Where to place the yard sign at a grass field? - ANSWER- Conspicuous points of entry
How long do the yard signs have to be in place after the application? - ANSWER- 72 hours
What notice do you need to schools, faculty, and parents when applying pesticides. - ANSWER- 48 hour written notice
Who is responsible for notifying faculty and parents about the pesticide application? - ANSWER- Principal
Who is responsible for keeping records of pesticide applications at schools? - ANSWER- School Admin
- parts of an insect - ANSWER- head, thorax, abdomen
EPA - ANSWER- Responsible for ensuring pesticides meet new standards
Emulsifiable Concentrate (EC) - ANSWER- A pesticide formulation produced by mixing an active ingredient and an emulsifying agent in a suitable petroleum solvent. When combined with water, a milky emulsion is usually formed.
Emulsion - ANSWER- any mixture of two or more immiscible liquids in which one liquid is dispersed in the other
Suspension - ANSWER- A mixture in which particles can be seen and easily separated by settling or filtration
Wettable Powders (WP) - ANSWER- Are dry Finely ground formations that look like dusts
Soluble Powders (SP) - ANSWER- A dry formulation that is mixed with water and dissolves readily to form a true solution
Ready to use - ANSWER- RTU
Invert emulsion - ANSWER- a mixture in which water droplets are suspended in an oil instead of oil droplets being suspended in water 1 / 4
Bait - ANSWER- Contains an active ingredient mixed with food or another attractive substance
Fumigants - ANSWER- toxic gases that are used to kill pests
Adjuvants - ANSWER- Are chemicals that are either premixed in the pesticide formulation or added to the spray tank to improve mixing, application or pesticidal performance.
FIFRA - ANSWER- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
intergrated pest management (IPM) - ANSWER- Minimizes the use of pesticides and the risk to human health and the environment associated with pesticide applications
pesticide - ANSWER- A chemical intended to kill insects and other organisms that damage crops.
Pest - ANSWER- Unwanted organism that directly or indirectly interferes with human activities.
FQPA - ANSWER- Food Quality Protection Act
FFDCA - ANSWER- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
label - ANSWER- Any key information about the pesticide on the pesticide container
Site - ANSWER- The particular entity to which a pesticide is or could be applied
Main groups of pests - ANSWER- Insects Vertebraes Plants Microorganisms
Types of pest problems - ANSWER- Structural damage Property damage Food concerns Health risks Risks to environment Reduced aesthetics Impairs function of things we use
- Pest needs - ANSWER- Food
Water Shelter 2 / 4
Breeding sites
insects - ANSWER- arthropods with three body sections, six legs, one pair of antenna, and usually one or two pairs of wings
Plants - ANSWER- A plant or a weed that is growing where not wanted
Herbaceous weeds - ANSWER- Do not produce woody tissue and their top growth does back each year, can reduce crop yields and hinder the growth of lawns
Mode of action - ANSWER- Is the way a pesticide acts on a pest
Residual insecticides - ANSWER- Provide control for hours, days, weeks, or even longer after application
No residual insecticides - ANSWER- Are only effective at the time of application
Contact insecticides - ANSWER- Kills insects that come into contact with it
Stomach poison - ANSWER- A pesticide that must be eaten by an animal to be effective-it will not kill on contact.
Systemic insecticides - ANSWER- A special kind of poison that is absorbed by and spreads throughout a treated plant or animal
contact herbicide - ANSWER- a herbicide that damages or kills only portions of the plants it contacts
systemic herbicide - ANSWER- a herbicide that enters a plant and moves within the plant
selective herbicides - ANSWER- A herbicide that kills one type of plant but does not seriously affect other types of plants.
Non-selective herbicide - ANSWER- A substance that kills all plants it contacts.
Protectants - ANSWER- Prevent fungi from infecting a plant
Systemic and eradicants - ANSWER- Enter and move inside a plant to control existing infections
Acute rodenticide - ANSWER- will kill a rat or mouse in a single feeding
MULTIDOSE ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE - ANSWER- A chemical that prevents normal blood clotting and that will cause a rodent to bleed to death after several feedings. 3 / 4
Perennials - ANSWER- flowering plants that live for more than two years
Skin - ANSWER- Most common way for a pesticide to enter the body
Aquifer - ANSWER- An underground formation that contains groundwater
acre - ANSWER- 43,560 square feet
Toxicity - ANSWER- The condition of producing adverse bodily effects due to poisonous qualities.
Service Container - ANSWER- A container designed to hold concentrate or diluted pesticide mixtures; not the original pesticide container
acute toxicity - ANSWER- adverse effects that occur within a short period after exposure to a toxicant
chronic toxicity - ANSWER- adverse effects that occur some time after exposure to a toxicant or after extended exposure to the toxicant
Steps to rinsing pesticide containers - ANSWER- Rinse 3 times
Pesticide treatment at schools - ANSWER- Cracks and crevice, bait boxes, gels, ext.
How many days before spraying a school do parents, students, and staff need to be notified? - ANSWER- 48hours before and 72 hours after
Where to place the yard sign at a grass field? - ANSWER- Conspicuous points of entry
How long do the yard signs have to be in place after the application? - ANSWER- 72 hours
What notice do you need to schools, faculty, and parents when applying pesticides. - ANSWER- 48 hour written notice
Who is responsible for notifying faculty and parents about the pesticide application? - ANSWER- Principal
Who is responsible for keeping records of pesticide applications at schools? - ANSWER- School Admin
- parts of an insect - ANSWER- head, thorax, abdomen
EPA - ANSWER- Responsible for ensuring pesticides meet new standards
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