Question Set 25 for the CEU Series

To earn one core continuing education unit for the Florida pesticide applicator license or an FNGLA professional designation, review "Making The Underground Scene" on this Web site or in the January 2008 issue of Ornamental Outlook. Then answer the following questions and submit this form to the author for grading.

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1. The vertical movement of pesticides through the soil, as opposed to horizontal movement over the earth’s surface, can best be defined as?
a. stormwater runoff
b. osmosis
c. gravitational pull
d. leaching


2. A pesticide is held strongly on the surface of soil particles by what?
a. persistence
b. particle binding
c. adsorption
d. all of the above


3. A pesticide that easily dissolves in water is considered to be what?
a. dissolved
b. soluble
c. permeable
d. none of the above


4. Pesticides that are most likely to move into groundwater are what?
a. extremely soluble
b. highly persistent
c. not tightly attached to the soil
d. all of the above


5. What are some of the effects soil texture will have on pesticide leaching?


6. Soils that are high in organic matter:
a. influence how much water the soil will hold before moving downward
b. influence adsorption
c. have less ability to absorb or bound many pesticides to the soil surface
d. both a. and b.


7. How does an integrated pest management approach to pest control benefit both the applicator and the environment?


8. The key to an effective pesticide program is to?
a. keep the application on the target site
b. never exceed recommended application rates
c. carefully calibrate
d. all of the above


9. As a pesticide applicator, how can you prevent pesticides from contaminating groundwater?


10. As an applicator, there are a number of practices you can incorporate to prevent pesticide leaching. List four of those practices.


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