MASSACHUSETTS PESTICIDE STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔No residual insecticides - ✔✔Are only effective at the time of application
✔✔Contact insecticides - ✔✔Kills insects that come into contact with it
✔✔Stomach poison - ✔✔A pesticide that must be eaten by an animal to be effective-it
will not kill on contact.
✔✔Systemic insecticides - ✔✔A special kind of poison that is absorbed by and spreads
throughout a treated plant or animal
✔✔contact herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide that damages or kills only portions of the plants it
contacts
✔✔systemic herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide that enters a plant and moves within the plant
✔✔selective herbicides - ✔✔A herbicide that kills one type of plant but does not
seriously affect other types of plants.
✔✔Non-selective herbicide - ✔✔A substance that kills all plants it contacts.
✔✔Protectants - ✔✔Prevent fungi from infecting a plant
✔✔Systemic and eradicants - ✔✔Enter and move inside a plant to control existing
infections
✔✔Acute rodenticide - ✔✔will kill a rat or mouse in a single feeding
✔✔MULTIDOSE ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE - ✔✔A chemical that prevents
normal blood clotting and that will cause a rodent to bleed to death after several
feedings.
✔✔Perennials - ✔✔flowering plants that live for more than two years
✔✔Skin - ✔✔Most common way for a pesticide to enter the body
✔✔Aquifer - ✔✔An underground formation that contains groundwater
✔✔acre - ✔✔43,560 square feet
✔✔Toxicity - ✔✔The condition of producing adverse bodily effects due to poisonous
qualities.
, ✔✔Service Container - ✔✔A container designed to hold concentrate or diluted pesticide
mixtures; not the original pesticide container
✔✔acute toxicity - ✔✔adverse effects that occur within a short period after exposure to
a toxicant
✔✔chronic toxicity - ✔✔adverse effects that occur some time after exposure to a
toxicant or after extended exposure to the toxicant
✔✔Steps to rinsing pesticide containers - ✔✔Rinse 3 times
✔✔Pesticide treatment at schools - ✔✔Cracks and crevice, bait boxes, gels, ext.
✔✔How many days before spraying a school do parents, students, and staff need to be
notified? - ✔✔48hours before and 72 hours after
✔✔Where to place the yard sign at a grass field? - ✔✔Conspicuous points of entry
✔✔How long do the yard signs have to be in place after the application? - ✔✔72 hours
✔✔What notice do you need to schools, faculty, and parents when applying pesticides.
- ✔✔48 hour written notice
✔✔Who is responsible for notifying faculty and parents about the pesticide application?
- ✔✔Principal
✔✔Who is responsible for keeping records of pesticide applications at schools? -
✔✔School Admin
✔✔3 parts of an insect - ✔✔head, thorax, abdomen
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Responsible for ensuring pesticides meet new standards
✔✔Emulsifiable Concentrate (EC) - ✔✔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 - ✔✔any mixture of two or more immiscible liquids in which one liquid is
dispersed in the other
✔✔Suspension - ✔✔A mixture in which particles can be seen and easily separated by
settling or filtration
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔No residual insecticides - ✔✔Are only effective at the time of application
✔✔Contact insecticides - ✔✔Kills insects that come into contact with it
✔✔Stomach poison - ✔✔A pesticide that must be eaten by an animal to be effective-it
will not kill on contact.
✔✔Systemic insecticides - ✔✔A special kind of poison that is absorbed by and spreads
throughout a treated plant or animal
✔✔contact herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide that damages or kills only portions of the plants it
contacts
✔✔systemic herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide that enters a plant and moves within the plant
✔✔selective herbicides - ✔✔A herbicide that kills one type of plant but does not
seriously affect other types of plants.
✔✔Non-selective herbicide - ✔✔A substance that kills all plants it contacts.
✔✔Protectants - ✔✔Prevent fungi from infecting a plant
✔✔Systemic and eradicants - ✔✔Enter and move inside a plant to control existing
infections
✔✔Acute rodenticide - ✔✔will kill a rat or mouse in a single feeding
✔✔MULTIDOSE ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE - ✔✔A chemical that prevents
normal blood clotting and that will cause a rodent to bleed to death after several
feedings.
✔✔Perennials - ✔✔flowering plants that live for more than two years
✔✔Skin - ✔✔Most common way for a pesticide to enter the body
✔✔Aquifer - ✔✔An underground formation that contains groundwater
✔✔acre - ✔✔43,560 square feet
✔✔Toxicity - ✔✔The condition of producing adverse bodily effects due to poisonous
qualities.
, ✔✔Service Container - ✔✔A container designed to hold concentrate or diluted pesticide
mixtures; not the original pesticide container
✔✔acute toxicity - ✔✔adverse effects that occur within a short period after exposure to
a toxicant
✔✔chronic toxicity - ✔✔adverse effects that occur some time after exposure to a
toxicant or after extended exposure to the toxicant
✔✔Steps to rinsing pesticide containers - ✔✔Rinse 3 times
✔✔Pesticide treatment at schools - ✔✔Cracks and crevice, bait boxes, gels, ext.
✔✔How many days before spraying a school do parents, students, and staff need to be
notified? - ✔✔48hours before and 72 hours after
✔✔Where to place the yard sign at a grass field? - ✔✔Conspicuous points of entry
✔✔How long do the yard signs have to be in place after the application? - ✔✔72 hours
✔✔What notice do you need to schools, faculty, and parents when applying pesticides.
- ✔✔48 hour written notice
✔✔Who is responsible for notifying faculty and parents about the pesticide application?
- ✔✔Principal
✔✔Who is responsible for keeping records of pesticide applications at schools? -
✔✔School Admin
✔✔3 parts of an insect - ✔✔head, thorax, abdomen
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Responsible for ensuring pesticides meet new standards
✔✔Emulsifiable Concentrate (EC) - ✔✔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 - ✔✔any mixture of two or more immiscible liquids in which one liquid is
dispersed in the other
✔✔Suspension - ✔✔A mixture in which particles can be seen and easily separated by
settling or filtration
