Florida Core Pest Exam Question and
Answer 2026 Grade A+ 100% Correct
Questions and Answers
• Applicator class -✓✓A term indicating the organizational system for certified
applicators under the Florida Pesticide Law. Depending upon the kind of
employment engaged in, a license is classified as either Private, Public, or
Commercial applicator.
• certification category -✓✓an individual officially made on a license of where and
how the license holder may legally conduct pesticide applicator activities
• Certified applicator -✓✓An individual who has been recognized (certified) by the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as being competent to
use or supervise the use of restricted-use pesticides.
• continuing education units (CEUs) -✓✓approximately one hour of study credit
used to make up the total credits required for applicator recertification
• Extremely Hazardous Substance -✓✓A classification established by EPA for
certain chemicals, some of which are active ingredients in pesticide products.
Storage facilities containing such substances must be formally reported if there
substances are present in more than certain amounts.
• FDACS -✓✓Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
• FDACS -✓✓state agency that enforces the provisions of FIFRA and the Florida
Pesticide Law
• FIFRA -✓✓Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
• FIFRA -✓✓federal law that provides the overall framework for the federal
pesticide program
, • Florida Pesticide Law -✓✓The law that governs the use of pesticides in Florida,
which is administered by the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer
Services (FDACS).
• Limited Certification -✓✓A designation on a license issued under the Structural
Pest Control Act that enables the licensee to apply pesticides only under certain
prescribed circumstances.
• ordinance -✓✓laws developed by local government officials; ordinances are
enforced at the city or county government level
• Recertification -✓✓the process by which licensed pesticide applicators
accumulate continuing education units in order to keep the license valid
• Restricted use pesticide (RUP) -✓✓Pesticide for retail sale to, and use by, only
certified applicators or persons under their direct supervision and only for those
purposes covered by the applicator's certification.
• Action threshold -✓✓the pest level at which some type of pest management
action must be taken
• bioaccumulation -✓✓the accumulation of substances, such as pesticides, or other
chemicals in an organism- the substance is absorbed at a greater rate than what is
lost
• biomagnification -✓✓the tendency for certain pesticides to progressively become
more concentrated in each type of organism when moving from the bottom to the
top organism within a food chain
• contact pesticide -✓✓pesticide that is not absorbed systemically by treated plants
or animals. these pesticides must directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents
to be effective
• economic threshold -✓✓The level where the economic losses caused by pest
damage, if the pest population continued to grow, would be greater than the cost of
controlling the pests.
Answer 2026 Grade A+ 100% Correct
Questions and Answers
• Applicator class -✓✓A term indicating the organizational system for certified
applicators under the Florida Pesticide Law. Depending upon the kind of
employment engaged in, a license is classified as either Private, Public, or
Commercial applicator.
• certification category -✓✓an individual officially made on a license of where and
how the license holder may legally conduct pesticide applicator activities
• Certified applicator -✓✓An individual who has been recognized (certified) by the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as being competent to
use or supervise the use of restricted-use pesticides.
• continuing education units (CEUs) -✓✓approximately one hour of study credit
used to make up the total credits required for applicator recertification
• Extremely Hazardous Substance -✓✓A classification established by EPA for
certain chemicals, some of which are active ingredients in pesticide products.
Storage facilities containing such substances must be formally reported if there
substances are present in more than certain amounts.
• FDACS -✓✓Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
• FDACS -✓✓state agency that enforces the provisions of FIFRA and the Florida
Pesticide Law
• FIFRA -✓✓Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
• FIFRA -✓✓federal law that provides the overall framework for the federal
pesticide program
, • Florida Pesticide Law -✓✓The law that governs the use of pesticides in Florida,
which is administered by the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer
Services (FDACS).
• Limited Certification -✓✓A designation on a license issued under the Structural
Pest Control Act that enables the licensee to apply pesticides only under certain
prescribed circumstances.
• ordinance -✓✓laws developed by local government officials; ordinances are
enforced at the city or county government level
• Recertification -✓✓the process by which licensed pesticide applicators
accumulate continuing education units in order to keep the license valid
• Restricted use pesticide (RUP) -✓✓Pesticide for retail sale to, and use by, only
certified applicators or persons under their direct supervision and only for those
purposes covered by the applicator's certification.
• Action threshold -✓✓the pest level at which some type of pest management
action must be taken
• bioaccumulation -✓✓the accumulation of substances, such as pesticides, or other
chemicals in an organism- the substance is absorbed at a greater rate than what is
lost
• biomagnification -✓✓the tendency for certain pesticides to progressively become
more concentrated in each type of organism when moving from the bottom to the
top organism within a food chain
• contact pesticide -✓✓pesticide that is not absorbed systemically by treated plants
or animals. these pesticides must directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents
to be effective
• economic threshold -✓✓The level where the economic losses caused by pest
damage, if the pest population continued to grow, would be greater than the cost of
controlling the pests.
