TDA Landscape Maintenance Ornamental and Turf Exam with accurate detailed solutions

TDA Landscape Maintenance Ornamental and Turf Exam
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with accurate detailed solutions
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Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) - correct answer✔✔Who is the primary agency
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regulating pesticides in Texas? || || ||




IPM (Integrated Pest Management) - correct answer✔✔Comprehensive approach that uses
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biological, cultural, physical, and chemical controls in a careful, environmentally sound
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manner.



Landscape Problems - correct answer✔✔Biotic, abiotic, and natural factors
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Biological control - correct answer✔✔Involves manipulating the natural enemies of pets
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Cultural control - correct answer✔✔Involve in taking care of the plants, such as site
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selection and watering practices. || || ||




Mechanical control - correct answer✔✔Involves the use of equipment or manual operations
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to keep out or disrupt the life cycle of pests.
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Host plant resistance - correct answer✔✔Some plants can tolerate damage from certain
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pests or are unsuitable for pest development.
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Chemical control - correct answer✔✔Involves the use of pesticides to destroy pests, control
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their activity, or prevent them from causing damage.
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, Plant selection - correct answer✔✔Choose all landscape plants according to their water
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requirements, shade tolerance, and susceptibility to pests. || || || || || ||




Preventive applications - correct answer✔✔Involves applying a pesticide before the problem
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appears.
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Reactive, or curative, treatments - correct answer✔✔Occur after you notice the pest or its
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damage.



100 - correct answer✔✔Mix and load pesticides at least ____ feet from wells, lakes, streams,
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rivers, and storm drains.
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Drift - correct answer✔✔The unintended movement of pesticides through the air during or
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after application to an area other than the intended target.
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Runoff - correct answer✔✔Movement of pesticides across the treated surface, such as a
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lawn.



Pesticide adjuvants - correct answer✔✔Are products designed to make pesticides more
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effective.



16 - correct answer✔✔How many elements do plants need?
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Temperature, moisture, and sunlight - correct answer✔✔What greatly influences the
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amount of time required for a pesticide to degrade after application?
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systemic insecticides - correct answer✔✔are absorbed by plant roots or foliage and than
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translocated throughout the plants. best against piercing sucking insects || || || || || || || ||