Tennessee Agricultural Pest Control
Plant (Category 1 - C1) Exam Questions
and Answers
Which agency is responsible for the enforcement of federal laws and regulations?
A. UT
B. TDA
C. USDA
D. EPA - Correct Answers -D. EPA
Which law requires federal registration of pesticides shipped in interstate commerce?
A. TIFRA
B. FIFRA
C. FEPCA
D. TAPA - Correct Answers -B. FIFRA
Which law prohibits the use of any registered pesticides shipped in interstate
commerce?
A. TAPA
B. FEPCA
C. USDA
D. RCRA - Correct Answers -B. FEPCA
Which insect, feeds on foliate of soybeans, has a light a green coloration and have two
pairs of abdominal prolegs?
A. fall armyworm
B. Cabbage looper
C. corn earworm
D. green cloverworm - Correct Answers -B. Cabbage looper
How has no-till soybeans affected the herbicide market?
A. more postemergence materials
B. more surface applied preemergence materials
, C. fewer herbicides that require incorporation
D. B & C - Correct Answers -D. B & C
What is dead and discolored tissue in a plant known as?
A. Fibrosis
B. sclerosis
C. chlorosis
D. necrosis - Correct Answers -D. necrosis
What is the best overall method of controlling frogeye leaf spot, soybean cyst
nematode, sudden death syndrome and stem canker
A. time of planting
B. chemicals
C. cultivar selection
D. all of the above - Correct Answers -C. cultivar
Any commercial Applicator who violates any provision of FIFRA may be assessed a civil
penalty of?
A. $5,000
B. $10,000
C. $15,000
D. $20,000 - Correct Answers -A. $5,000
Which agency is responsible for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of pest
control employees and the general public from the hazards of pesticide use in
Tennessee?
A. USDA
B. DOT
C. TDA
D. TDOT - Correct Answers -C. TDA
The TDA certification and enforcement functions are coordinated primarily through what
division of TDA?
A. Division of Plant Industries
B. Regulator Service Division
C. Fishery and Wildlife
D. Pesticide Regulatory Division - Correct Answers -B. Regulatory services Division
Pesticides that may cause adverse effects on the environment and/ or the applicator
unless subject to additional regulatory restrictions are classified as?
Plant (Category 1 - C1) Exam Questions
and Answers
Which agency is responsible for the enforcement of federal laws and regulations?
A. UT
B. TDA
C. USDA
D. EPA - Correct Answers -D. EPA
Which law requires federal registration of pesticides shipped in interstate commerce?
A. TIFRA
B. FIFRA
C. FEPCA
D. TAPA - Correct Answers -B. FIFRA
Which law prohibits the use of any registered pesticides shipped in interstate
commerce?
A. TAPA
B. FEPCA
C. USDA
D. RCRA - Correct Answers -B. FEPCA
Which insect, feeds on foliate of soybeans, has a light a green coloration and have two
pairs of abdominal prolegs?
A. fall armyworm
B. Cabbage looper
C. corn earworm
D. green cloverworm - Correct Answers -B. Cabbage looper
How has no-till soybeans affected the herbicide market?
A. more postemergence materials
B. more surface applied preemergence materials
, C. fewer herbicides that require incorporation
D. B & C - Correct Answers -D. B & C
What is dead and discolored tissue in a plant known as?
A. Fibrosis
B. sclerosis
C. chlorosis
D. necrosis - Correct Answers -D. necrosis
What is the best overall method of controlling frogeye leaf spot, soybean cyst
nematode, sudden death syndrome and stem canker
A. time of planting
B. chemicals
C. cultivar selection
D. all of the above - Correct Answers -C. cultivar
Any commercial Applicator who violates any provision of FIFRA may be assessed a civil
penalty of?
A. $5,000
B. $10,000
C. $15,000
D. $20,000 - Correct Answers -A. $5,000
Which agency is responsible for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of pest
control employees and the general public from the hazards of pesticide use in
Tennessee?
A. USDA
B. DOT
C. TDA
D. TDOT - Correct Answers -C. TDA
The TDA certification and enforcement functions are coordinated primarily through what
division of TDA?
A. Division of Plant Industries
B. Regulator Service Division
C. Fishery and Wildlife
D. Pesticide Regulatory Division - Correct Answers -B. Regulatory services Division
Pesticides that may cause adverse effects on the environment and/ or the applicator
unless subject to additional regulatory restrictions are classified as?
