TruGreen General Pest Management Test 7A Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025 The movement of a chemical into plants, animals (including humans), and/or microorganisms. - Correct Answers
✅ABSORPTION
A pesticide used to control mites and ticks. Amiticide is an acaricide. - Correct Answers ✅ACARICIDE The chemical or chemicals in a pesticide responsible for killing, poisoning, or repelling the pest. Listed separately in the ingredient statement. - Correct Answers ✅ACTIVE INGREDIENT The capacity of a pesticide to cause injury within 24 hours following exposure. LD50 and LC50 are common indicators of the degree of acute toxicity.(See also chronic toxicity). - Correct Answers ✅ACUTE
TOXICITY
A substance added to a pesticide to improve its effectiveness or safety. Same as additive.
Examples: penetrants, spreader-stickers, and wetting
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TruGreen General Pest Management Test 7A Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025 The process by which chemicals are held or bound to a surface by physical or chemical attraction.Clay and high organic soils tend to adsorb pesticides. - Correct Answers ✅ADSORPTION See pheromone. - Correct Answers ✅AGGREGATION
PHEROMONE
Amaterial stored in a container under pressure.Fine droplets are produced when the material dissolved in a liquid carrier is released into the air from the pressurized container. - Correct Answers ✅AEROSOL Relatively simple plants that contain chlorophyll and are photosynthetic. - Correct Answers ✅ALGAE Apesticide used to kill or inhibit algae. - Correct Answers
✅ALGICIDE
A device attached to the filling hose that prevents backflow or back-siphoning from a spray tank into a water source. - Correct Answers
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TruGreen General Pest Management Test 7A Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025 A chemical that prevents normal blood clotting—the active ingredient in some rodenticides. - Correct Answers ✅ANTICOAGULANT A treatment used to counteract the effects of pesticide poisoning or some other poison in the body. - Correct Answers ✅ANTIDOTE A wingless arthropod with two body regions and four pairs of jointed legs. Spiders, ticks, and mites are in the class Arachnida. - Correct Answers
✅ARACHNID
An invertebrate animal characterized by a jointed body and limbs and usually a hard body covering that is molted at intervals. For example, insects, mites, and crayfish are in the phylum Arthropoda. - Correct Answers ✅ARTHROPOD A substance or device that will lure pests to a trap or poison bait. - Correct Answers
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TruGreen General Pest Management Test 7A Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025 A pesticide used to kill or repel birds. Birds are in the class Aves. - Correct Answers ✅AVICIDE Microscopic organisms, some of which are capable of producing diseases in plants and animals.Others are beneficial. - Correct Answers ✅BACTERIA Chemical used to control bacteria. - Correct Answers
✅BACTERICIDE
Afood or other substance used to attract a pest to a pesticide or to a trap. - Correct Answers ✅BAIT Application of a pesticide in a strip alongside or around a structure, a portion of a structure, or any object. - Correct Answers ✅BARRIER
APPLICATION
An insect that is useful or helpful to humans; usually insect parasites, predators, pollinators, etc. - Correct Answers ✅BENEFICIAL INSECT
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