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FLORIDA PUBLIC HEALTH PEST
CONTROL EXAM UPDATED EXAM
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS.
1. Thin, multilayered tissue covering insects and other arthropods.
The outside layer is composed of proteins, waxes and
"cement", while layers beneath contain chitin along with
proteins and waxes penetrated by numerous pores and glands.
- correct answer -Cuticle
2. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services -
correct answer -DACS
3. Creating ditches or furrows into a salt marsh to provide water
circulation and to make the marsh available to fish. - correct
answer -Ditching (glossary)
4. Eastern equine encephalitis is a viral disease that is spread to
horses and humans by infected mosquitoes. The causative
agent, eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), is an
alphavirus that was first isolated from infected horse brains in
1930s and currently occurs in focal locations of the eastern
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United States including Florida - correct answer -Eastern
Equine Encephalitis (EEE) (glossary)
5. Animal diseases which are commonly present in a locality -
correct answer -Enzootic
6. The hard or tough external covering of arthropods to which
their muscles are attached and which serves the same function
as the bony skeleton of humans - correct answer -Exoskeleton
7. Florida Anti-Mosquito Association - correct answer -FAMA
8. A group of related genera within an order - correct answer -
Family (glossary)
9. Animal life of a given area - correct answer -Fauna
10. Is a generic term for the list of animal species occurring in a
particular region. Fauna can refer to a prehistoric collection of
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animals, as might be inferred from the fossil record, or to a
modern assemblage of species living in a region. More locally,
a faunation refers to the communities of individuals of the
various animal species and occurring in a particular place -
correct answer -Faunal Zones
11. Plant life of a given area - correct answer -Flora
12. Florida Mosquito Control Association - correct answer -
FMCA
13. Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of
Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences - correct
answer -FMEL
14. A group of species considered more closely related to one
another than to members of another genus (plural is "genera");
the first word in the scientific name of a species is the name of
the genus. - correct answer -Genus (genera)
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15. Coverage of the surface of a marsh with shallow water to
prevent exposing substrate for salt march mosquito egg laying
- correct answer -Impoundment
16. Synthetic insecticide which prevents normal development or
causes delayed mortality of insects by disrupting a natural
physiological process - correct answer -Insect Growth
Regulator (IGR)
17. The use of a combination of biological, chemical, educational
and physical control methods in order to maintain targeted
species or populations of mosquitoes at an acceptable level -
correct answer -Integrated Mosquito Management (IMM)
(glossary)
18. General and technical information about a pesticide product
in the form of printed material attached to or printed on the
pesticide container - correct answer -Label
19. Technical information about a pesticide in the form of printed
material provided by the manufacturer, including labels, flyers,
handouts, leaflets and brochures - correct answer -Labeling
FLORIDA PUBLIC HEALTH PEST
CONTROL EXAM UPDATED EXAM
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS.
1. Thin, multilayered tissue covering insects and other arthropods.
The outside layer is composed of proteins, waxes and
"cement", while layers beneath contain chitin along with
proteins and waxes penetrated by numerous pores and glands.
- correct answer -Cuticle
2. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services -
correct answer -DACS
3. Creating ditches or furrows into a salt marsh to provide water
circulation and to make the marsh available to fish. - correct
answer -Ditching (glossary)
4. Eastern equine encephalitis is a viral disease that is spread to
horses and humans by infected mosquitoes. The causative
agent, eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), is an
alphavirus that was first isolated from infected horse brains in
1930s and currently occurs in focal locations of the eastern
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United States including Florida - correct answer -Eastern
Equine Encephalitis (EEE) (glossary)
5. Animal diseases which are commonly present in a locality -
correct answer -Enzootic
6. The hard or tough external covering of arthropods to which
their muscles are attached and which serves the same function
as the bony skeleton of humans - correct answer -Exoskeleton
7. Florida Anti-Mosquito Association - correct answer -FAMA
8. A group of related genera within an order - correct answer -
Family (glossary)
9. Animal life of a given area - correct answer -Fauna
10. Is a generic term for the list of animal species occurring in a
particular region. Fauna can refer to a prehistoric collection of
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animals, as might be inferred from the fossil record, or to a
modern assemblage of species living in a region. More locally,
a faunation refers to the communities of individuals of the
various animal species and occurring in a particular place -
correct answer -Faunal Zones
11. Plant life of a given area - correct answer -Flora
12. Florida Mosquito Control Association - correct answer -
FMCA
13. Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of
Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences - correct
answer -FMEL
14. A group of species considered more closely related to one
another than to members of another genus (plural is "genera");
the first word in the scientific name of a species is the name of
the genus. - correct answer -Genus (genera)
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15. Coverage of the surface of a marsh with shallow water to
prevent exposing substrate for salt march mosquito egg laying
- correct answer -Impoundment
16. Synthetic insecticide which prevents normal development or
causes delayed mortality of insects by disrupting a natural
physiological process - correct answer -Insect Growth
Regulator (IGR)
17. The use of a combination of biological, chemical, educational
and physical control methods in order to maintain targeted
species or populations of mosquitoes at an acceptable level -
correct answer -Integrated Mosquito Management (IMM)
(glossary)
18. General and technical information about a pesticide product
in the form of printed material attached to or printed on the
pesticide container - correct answer -Label
19. Technical information about a pesticide in the form of printed
material provided by the manufacturer, including labels, flyers,
handouts, leaflets and brochures - correct answer -Labeling
