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Pesticide exam quick prep, PA Pesticide Applicator Exam || || || || || || || ||
Weeds and Disease ID, PA Pesticide Applicator Exam Lawn
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and Turf, PA Pesticide Applicator Exam Core
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What bugs are surface feeding insects? - ✔✔Chinch bugs, bill bugs, and aod webworms
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(beauvaria-fungal disease that kills them. Above average rainfall) || || || || || || ||
Most bugs are damaging and controllable at which stage? What are the exceptions? -
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✔✔Larvae. Chinch and billbugs are at all stages || || || || || || ||
When are most pests controlled? - ✔✔May and June but can be less or more
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NFPA Hazard Identification - ✔✔
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gray snow mold - ✔✔white crusted areas of matted grass
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Dollar Spot - ✔✔Tan leaf spots with reddish borders; droughty soil; humid weather;
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mycelium may be present in morning || || || || ||
yellow patch - ✔✔Round patterns of dead turfgrass, often green in centers; "cool temp
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brown patch" cool wet conditions
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pythium blight - ✔✔"Greasy" turfgrass; low, wet areas
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necrotic ring spot - ✔✔circular patches of dead or dying turf; leaves turn yellow or red and
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then progress to a light tan color
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fairy ring - ✔✔dark green fast growing rings, mushrooms, different rings
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Which federal law requires that all pesticides meet new safety standards? - ✔✔FQPA
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Which statement about the requirements of the FQPA is true?
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• The FQPA does not consider additional safety standards to account for exposure risks to
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infants and children. || ||
• For setting new standards, the FQPA considers aggregate exposures to pesticides but not
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cumulative exposures. ||
• Testing of pesticides for endocrine disruption potential is required under the FQPA.
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• The FQPA does not require review of older pesticides with established residue tolerances
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on food. - ✔✔• Testing of pesticides for endocrine disruption potential is required under the
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FQPA. (correct answer, your response)
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Which statement about FIFRA is false?
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• Approved pesticide labels have the force of law
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• The EPA has the authority to remove pesticide products from the market
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..• State restrictions on pesticides can be more liberal than those of FIFRA.
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• FIFRA regulates the registration and licensing of pesticide products. - ✔✔.• State
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restrictions on pesticides can be more liberal than those of FIFRA. (correct answer, your
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response)
Under which set of circumstances would the certified applicator be required to be
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physically present at the application site? - ✔✔If state law or the label requires it.
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FIFRA
FFDCA
FQPA
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WPS
ESA - ✔✔FIFRA- main law
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FDCA- tolerances for food and feed products
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FQPA-higher standard for pesticides on food(aggregate and cumulative) || || || || || || ||
WPS- protects agricultural workers by requiring training, ppe, and REI's.
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ESA- consult a county bulletin
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Application Records - ✔✔USDA requires records be kept for three years
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Which dry/solid formulation is mixed in water and reduces the risk of inhalation exposure
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during mixing? - ✔✔Water-dispersible granule (WDG) or dry flowable (DF).
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all glove classifications include - ✔✔barrier laminate and most butyl rubber. G and H are
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barrier + viton. || ||
Calculations; ||
sq ft in acre?
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area of rectangle, trapedoid, triangle, circle?
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calibration should be within? - ✔✔43,560 ft^2 in an acre || || || || || || || || ||
Rectangle=LxW
Trap= [(a+b)/2]xH ||
Triangle= (BxH)/2 ||
Circle= (3.14)x(r^2) ||
should be 90%-100% of desired rate; no nozzle should differ from average by more than 10%.
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Summer annual - ✔✔Plants that germinate in the spring or summer and complete their life
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cycle within one year.
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mostly die at first frost
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control annuals before seed production or before germination.
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winter annual - ✔✔Plants that germinate in the fall and complete their life cycle within one
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year.
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Dies following seed production in spring
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Biennials - ✔✔A flowering plant that completes its life cycle in two years.
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forms rosette in first year, flowers the next.
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treat during first year while actively growing
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Perennials - ✔✔flowering plants that live for more than two years.
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spread by seed but mainly other means making them difficult to control.
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Annual bluegrass - ✔✔Winter annual
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light-green
open panicle seed heads (loose branching)
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Crabgrass - ✔✔Summer annual || || ||
spreading flat growth || ||
Pesticide exam quick prep, PA Pesticide Applicator Exam || || || || || || || ||
Weeds and Disease ID, PA Pesticide Applicator Exam Lawn
|| || || || || || || || ||
and Turf, PA Pesticide Applicator Exam Core
|| || || || || || ||
What bugs are surface feeding insects? - ✔✔Chinch bugs, bill bugs, and aod webworms
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(beauvaria-fungal disease that kills them. Above average rainfall) || || || || || || ||
Most bugs are damaging and controllable at which stage? What are the exceptions? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔Larvae. Chinch and billbugs are at all stages || || || || || || ||
When are most pests controlled? - ✔✔May and June but can be less or more
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
NFPA Hazard Identification - ✔✔
|| || || ||
gray snow mold - ✔✔white crusted areas of matted grass
|| || || || || || || || ||
Dollar Spot - ✔✔Tan leaf spots with reddish borders; droughty soil; humid weather;
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
mycelium may be present in morning || || || || ||
yellow patch - ✔✔Round patterns of dead turfgrass, often green in centers; "cool temp
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
brown patch" cool wet conditions
|| || || ||
pythium blight - ✔✔"Greasy" turfgrass; low, wet areas
|| || || || || || ||
necrotic ring spot - ✔✔circular patches of dead or dying turf; leaves turn yellow or red and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
then progress to a light tan color
|| || || || || ||
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fairy ring - ✔✔dark green fast growing rings, mushrooms, different rings
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Which federal law requires that all pesticides meet new safety standards? - ✔✔FQPA
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Which statement about the requirements of the FQPA is true?
|| || || || || || || || ||
• The FQPA does not consider additional safety standards to account for exposure risks to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
infants and children. || ||
• For setting new standards, the FQPA considers aggregate exposures to pesticides but not
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
cumulative exposures. ||
• Testing of pesticides for endocrine disruption potential is required under the FQPA.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
• The FQPA does not require review of older pesticides with established residue tolerances
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
on food. - ✔✔• Testing of pesticides for endocrine disruption potential is required under the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
FQPA. (correct answer, your response)
|| || || || ||
Which statement about FIFRA is false?
|| || || || ||
• Approved pesticide labels have the force of law
|| || || || || || || || ||
• The EPA has the authority to remove pesticide products from the market
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
..• State restrictions on pesticides can be more liberal than those of FIFRA.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
• FIFRA regulates the registration and licensing of pesticide products. - ✔✔.• State
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
restrictions on pesticides can be more liberal than those of FIFRA. (correct answer, your
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
response)
Under which set of circumstances would the certified applicator be required to be
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
physically present at the application site? - ✔✔If state law or the label requires it.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
FIFRA
FFDCA
FQPA
,2
WPS
ESA - ✔✔FIFRA- main law
|| || || ||
FDCA- tolerances for food and feed products
|| || || || || ||
FQPA-higher standard for pesticides on food(aggregate and cumulative) || || || || || || ||
WPS- protects agricultural workers by requiring training, ppe, and REI's.
|| || || || || || || || ||
ESA- consult a county bulletin
|| || || ||
Application Records - ✔✔USDA requires records be kept for three years
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Which dry/solid formulation is mixed in water and reduces the risk of inhalation exposure
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
during mixing? - ✔✔Water-dispersible granule (WDG) or dry flowable (DF).
|| || || || || || || || ||
all glove classifications include - ✔✔barrier laminate and most butyl rubber. G and H are
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
barrier + viton. || ||
Calculations; ||
sq ft in acre?
|| || ||
area of rectangle, trapedoid, triangle, circle?
|| || || || ||
calibration should be within? - ✔✔43,560 ft^2 in an acre || || || || || || || || ||
Rectangle=LxW
Trap= [(a+b)/2]xH ||
Triangle= (BxH)/2 ||
Circle= (3.14)x(r^2) ||
should be 90%-100% of desired rate; no nozzle should differ from average by more than 10%.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Summer annual - ✔✔Plants that germinate in the spring or summer and complete their life
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
cycle within one year.
|| || || ||
, 2
mostly die at first frost
|| || || ||
control annuals before seed production or before germination.
|| || || || || || ||
winter annual - ✔✔Plants that germinate in the fall and complete their life cycle within one
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
year.
|| ||
Dies following seed production in spring
|| || || || ||
Biennials - ✔✔A flowering plant that completes its life cycle in two years.
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
forms rosette in first year, flowers the next.
|| || || || || || ||
treat during first year while actively growing
|| || || || || ||
Perennials - ✔✔flowering plants that live for more than two years.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
spread by seed but mainly other means making them difficult to control.
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Annual bluegrass - ✔✔Winter annual
|| || || ||
light-green
open panicle seed heads (loose branching)
|| || || || ||
Crabgrass - ✔✔Summer annual || || ||
spreading flat growth || ||
