ILLINOIS SEED TREATMENT REVISION EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Solid Waste - ✔✔Ant solid, semi-solid, liquid, or contained gaseous materials
discarded from industrial, commercial, mining or agricultural operations, and from
community activities
✔✔Systemic - ✔✔A chemical that is absorbed and translocated within a plant
✔✔Thorax - ✔✔The region of the insect body bearing the true legs and wings, if present
✔✔Toxicity - ✔✔A measure of the capacity of a pesticide to cause injury
✔✔Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) - ✔✔A laboratory analysis of
waste to determine if the waste is listed in the Code of Federal Regulations as a pre-
defined and categorized hazardous waste
✔✔Virus - ✔✔A microscopic obligate parasite consisting of a core of infectious nucleic
acid usually surrounded by a protein coat
✔✔AI - ✔✔Active Ingredient
✔✔CWT - ✔✔Hundredweight
✔✔DF - ✔✔Dry Flowables
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Environmental Protection Agency
✔✔DNR - ✔✔Department of Natural Resources
✔✔F - ✔✔Flowables
✔✔FDA - ✔✔Food and Drug Administration
✔✔FFDCA - ✔✔Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
✔✔FIFRA - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
✔✔FSA - ✔✔Federal Seed Act
✔✔FS - ✔✔Flowable Seed Treatments
✔✔HEPA - ✔✔High Efficiency Particulate Absorbing
, ✔✔IDALS - ✔✔Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
✔✔IPM - ✔✔Integrated Pest Management
✔✔L - ✔✔Flowable Liquids
✔✔LS - ✔✔Liquid Suspensions
✔✔MSDS - ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheets
✔✔PPE - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment
✔✔PPM - ✔✔Parts per Million
✔✔RPM - ✔✔Rotations Per Million
✔✔RUP - ✔✔Restricted Use Pesticide
✔✔TCLP - ✔✔Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure
✔✔USDA - ✔✔United States Department of Agriculture
✔✔WP - ✔✔Wettable Powders
✔✔WPS - ✔✔Worker Protection Standard
✔✔Biological Seed Treatments - ✔✔Use beneficial fungi or bacteria to protect seeds
from nematodes and soil and seed pathogens. Fungi or bacteria multiply in the soil and
protect the root system after germination
✔✔Seed Treatment Formulations - ✔✔Slurries, Liquids, Powders
✔✔Liquids Formulation - ✔✔True solutions, provide uniform coverage of seeds
✔✔Slurry Formulation - ✔✔Water is added, provide accurate and thorough seed
coverage
✔✔Dry Powder Formulations - ✔✔Dusts mixed with seed, Difficult to distribute these
chemicals uniformly
✔✔Risk (Hazzard) - ✔✔Toxicity X Exposure
✔✔Danger Poison signal words - ✔✔Highly Toxic
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Solid Waste - ✔✔Ant solid, semi-solid, liquid, or contained gaseous materials
discarded from industrial, commercial, mining or agricultural operations, and from
community activities
✔✔Systemic - ✔✔A chemical that is absorbed and translocated within a plant
✔✔Thorax - ✔✔The region of the insect body bearing the true legs and wings, if present
✔✔Toxicity - ✔✔A measure of the capacity of a pesticide to cause injury
✔✔Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) - ✔✔A laboratory analysis of
waste to determine if the waste is listed in the Code of Federal Regulations as a pre-
defined and categorized hazardous waste
✔✔Virus - ✔✔A microscopic obligate parasite consisting of a core of infectious nucleic
acid usually surrounded by a protein coat
✔✔AI - ✔✔Active Ingredient
✔✔CWT - ✔✔Hundredweight
✔✔DF - ✔✔Dry Flowables
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Environmental Protection Agency
✔✔DNR - ✔✔Department of Natural Resources
✔✔F - ✔✔Flowables
✔✔FDA - ✔✔Food and Drug Administration
✔✔FFDCA - ✔✔Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
✔✔FIFRA - ✔✔Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
✔✔FSA - ✔✔Federal Seed Act
✔✔FS - ✔✔Flowable Seed Treatments
✔✔HEPA - ✔✔High Efficiency Particulate Absorbing
, ✔✔IDALS - ✔✔Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
✔✔IPM - ✔✔Integrated Pest Management
✔✔L - ✔✔Flowable Liquids
✔✔LS - ✔✔Liquid Suspensions
✔✔MSDS - ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheets
✔✔PPE - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment
✔✔PPM - ✔✔Parts per Million
✔✔RPM - ✔✔Rotations Per Million
✔✔RUP - ✔✔Restricted Use Pesticide
✔✔TCLP - ✔✔Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure
✔✔USDA - ✔✔United States Department of Agriculture
✔✔WP - ✔✔Wettable Powders
✔✔WPS - ✔✔Worker Protection Standard
✔✔Biological Seed Treatments - ✔✔Use beneficial fungi or bacteria to protect seeds
from nematodes and soil and seed pathogens. Fungi or bacteria multiply in the soil and
protect the root system after germination
✔✔Seed Treatment Formulations - ✔✔Slurries, Liquids, Powders
✔✔Liquids Formulation - ✔✔True solutions, provide uniform coverage of seeds
✔✔Slurry Formulation - ✔✔Water is added, provide accurate and thorough seed
coverage
✔✔Dry Powder Formulations - ✔✔Dusts mixed with seed, Difficult to distribute these
chemicals uniformly
✔✔Risk (Hazzard) - ✔✔Toxicity X Exposure
✔✔Danger Poison signal words - ✔✔Highly Toxic
