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CDFA IPM LICENSE EXAM 2024 COMPLETE 200 ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) GRADED A+
Which chemical causes aerial distress displays and vocal distress call and works as a flock frightening agent? - Correct Answer - Avitrol
What is the most effective method for mole management? - Correct Answer - kill traps
Which is the best description of zinc phosphide? - Correct Answer - heavy, finely ground black gray powder (also smells like powder)
Which of the following is evidence of gopher activity? - Correct Answer - crescent mounds (gopher activity is shown through crescent mounds)
What kind of damage would be seen in an orchard if meadow vole were present? - Correct Answer - gnawing at the bark
What does volatile mean? - Correct Answer - a chemical that vaporizes at normal temp and contact with air
Owner has problem with ground squirrels on his property. What does he need in order to use an anticoagulant on the pest? - Correct Answer - a bait that is labeled for this use and registered with the Department of Pesticide Regulation
Which of the following is a California noxious weed? - Correct Answer - Purple Loosestrife
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pg. 2 How should you control cattails growing in a large drainage canal that contains water most of the year - Correct Answer - cut below the water level
Which ladybug does not feed on aphids - Correct Answer - Cryptolaemus Mastropieri
What is an example of a cultural control that interrupts pest damage in time - Correct Answer - crop rotation
What pesticides are most persistent in soil - Correct Answer - monuron and picloram (more persistent)
Why are oil herbicides not a good control for use on grasses - Correct Answer - because of the protective waxy surface of grass
What is the definition of classical biological control - Correct Answer - control of a pest by the introduction of a natural enemy or predator
What is the definition of biological control - Correct Answer - augmentation and conservation
What is the major drawback of using insect growth regulators - Correct Answer - doesn't work on adults
What odor does a zinc phosphide coated bait give off - Correct Answer - garlic
How are muskrats classified - Correct Answer - fur bearers
Which pesticide causes the greatest threat of drift during application - Correct Answer -
2, 4-D
What is the greatest hazard when first applying pesticide - Correct Answer - spray drift 2 / 3
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Which best describes Q rating - Correct Answer - a temporary rating and under eradication action
What type of reproduction system in parasitic hymenopterans result in all females - Correct Answer - thelytoky
What is the name of a substance that readily forms a suspension with water - Correct Answer - wettable powder
In plants, what is the use of energy to make living material - Correct Answer - assimilation
When did the development of modern pesticides take place - Correct Answer - WWII
(1939-1945)
What is Vedalia Beetle a control for - Correct Answer - Cottony cushion scale
When do old historic records show the first usage of biological controls? - Correct Answer - 1200
What set off the major study into biological control from late 19th century to the 1940a - Correct Answer - the discovery of vedalia beetle as a successful control for cottony cushion scale in 1888
What type of animal eats dead carcasses and trash - Correct Answer - scavengers
Which of the following terms describes rabbits - Correct Answer - lagomorphs
How is the black-tailed jack rabbit classified - Correct Answer - game animal
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