Iowa Core Exam Review Pesticide Applicators
Exam/122 Questions with Answers
United States Protection Agency - -Regulates pesticide use in the united
States
-FIFRA - -Federal insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
-What does FIFRA do? - -Regulates the production, transportation sale use
and disposal of all pesticides
-IDALS - -Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship
-IDALS job - -Responsible for certifying pesticide applicators.
-FFDCA - -Federal food drug and cosmetic act.
-FFDCA job - -Federal law regulating the amount of pesticide residues
contained on commodities of food
-Residues - -Amount of pesticide remaining in or on raw farm products or
processed foods. Undesirable presence of a pesticide at the site of
application. Measures in ppm ppb ppt
-Tolerence - -Maximum amount of pesticide that may legally remain in or on
a raw farm product intended for consumption by humans or livestock.
Reasonable certainty of no harm.
-Application rate - -Amount of pesticide applied to a site usually expressed
as a liquid or dry measure per unit area
-Pre harvest interval - -Part of the pesticide label that defines the number of
days after application of a pesticide before a crop can be harvested.
-FQPA - -Food quality protection act
-FQPA job - -Federal law that significantly altered portions of both FIFRA and
ffdca. Changes included in this act are revised definitions for safe pesticide
tolerances for raw and processed foods
-WPS - -worker protection standard
-WPS JOB - -Set of regulations from the EPA aimed at reducing the risk of of
pesticide poisonings, injuries, and exposure to agriculture workers and
handlers.
, -ESA - -Endangered species act
-ESA JOB - -Program for the conservation of threatened or endangered
plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found
-Endangered species - -Species that is in danger of extinction throughout all
or significant portion of its range
-Threatened species - -Species that is likely to become endangered within
the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range
-Rinsates - -Solution of water or oil and pesticide left after rinsing a tank;
rinse water
-Hazardous waste - -Solid or liquid or a contained gaseous material that is
no longer used or that no longer serves the purpose fit which it was
produced, and could pose dangers to human health and the environment
after it is discarded
-RCRA - -Resource conservation and recovery act
-RCRA JOB - -Gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the
cradle to grave. This includes the generation transportation treatment
storage and disposal of hazardous waste
-Pesticide act of Iowa - -Regulate pesticide use in Iowa
-Pesticide applicator records - --Name & certification number of the license
-Name & address of the landowner or customer
-Address of the place of application of a restricted use pesticide
-Date of pesticide application
-Trade name of pesticide product used
-Quantity of pesticide product used and the concentration or rate of
application
-Temperature and direction and velocity of the wind at the time of
application
-The use of restricted use pesticides
-Time pesticide application begins and ends
-Concentration - -Amount of active ingredient Ina given volume or weight of
a pesticide formulation
-Sensitive crop directory - -Online registry that you can use to identify
locations of pesticide-sensitive crops and apiaries throughout Iowa
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