PESTICIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What type of herbicide can pass into the vapor phase? - ANS Highly volatile herbicide
What are herbicide kills only part of the plant that it - ANS Contact herbicide
Weeds are plants that grow 3 or more years - ANS Perennial
Which of the following factors would have the least effect on the movement of herbicide from
the application site? - ANS Type of soil it is applied to and the type of equipment that is used
What is the time interval that must be observed before animals can graze on treated site -
ANS 2 weeks
Is highly volatile herbicide is one that - ANS Can readily passed into the vapor phase
When do perennial plants begin to store food in their roots - ANS Fall
Bushes and shrubs are - ANS Low growing woody plant with several stems
The herbicide that kills only the parts of the plant that it touches is known as? - ANS Contact
herbicide
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, Which type of herbicide would you use on a highway shoulder where you need to maintain
bare ground? - ANS Non selective herbicide
When herbicides are combined with oil and applied to lower parts of stems and exposed roots
this method is called? - ANS Basil steam treatment
Which of the following is a grey powder, insoluble in water, and releases phosphide gas upon
ingestion? - ANS Zinc phosphide
A selective herbicide is one that? - ANS Kill some species of plants without harming other
species
Which area should you not apply a non-selective residual herbicide? - ANS Parking lot flower
beds
What type of herbicide can be combined with non-selective, soil applied herbicide to improve
the control in a weedy area? - ANS Contact herbicides
At what stage would it be most difficult to control bennial weeds with herbicide sprays? -
ANS Flowering and seed development
A mixture in which very small particles of one liquid are suspended in another liquid (for
example oil) and water is called what? - ANS An emulsion
What are broad-leaved plants? - ANS Leaves that are broad, net vain, with a taproot or
course root system
What vertibrate pest live its life entirely underground, and pushes up soil ridges just beneath
the surface as it feeds on grubs and earthworms? - ANS Moles
Is malathion restricted in california? - ANS No
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