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Iowa Core Exam Review Pesticide
Applicators Exam Questions With Verified
Answers
United States Protection Agency - answer✔Regulates pesticide use in the united States
FIFRA - answer✔Federal insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
What does FIFRA do? - answer✔Regulates the production, transportation sale use and disposal
of all pesticides
IDALS - answer✔Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship
IDALS job - answer✔Responsible for certifying pesticide applicators.
FFDCA - answer✔Federal food drug and cosmetic act.
FFDCA job - answer✔Federal law regulating the amount of pesticide residues contained on
commodities of food
Residues - answer✔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 - answer✔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 - answer✔Amount of pesticide applied to a site usually expressed as a liquid or
dry measure per unit area
Pre harvest interval - answer✔Part of the pesticide label that defines the number of days after
application of a pesticide before a crop can be harvested.
FQPA - answer✔Food quality protection act
FQPA job - answer✔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
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WPS - answer✔worker protection standard
WPS JOB - answer✔Set of regulations from the EPA aimed at reducing the risk of of pesticide
poisonings, injuries, and exposure to agriculture workers and handlers.
ESA - answer✔Endangered species act
ESA JOB - answer✔Program for the conservation of threatened or endangered plants and
animals and the habitats in which they are found
Endangered species - answer✔Species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or significant
portion of its range
Threatened species - answer✔Species that is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable
future throughout all or a significant portion of its range
Rinsates - answer✔Solution of water or oil and pesticide left after rinsing a tank; rinse water
Hazardous waste - answer✔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 - answer✔Resource conservation and recovery act
RCRA JOB - answer✔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 - answer✔Regulate pesticide use in Iowa
Pesticide applicator records - answer✔-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
Iowa Core Exam Review Pesticide
Applicators Exam Questions With Verified
Answers
United States Protection Agency - answer✔Regulates pesticide use in the united States
FIFRA - answer✔Federal insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act
What does FIFRA do? - answer✔Regulates the production, transportation sale use and disposal
of all pesticides
IDALS - answer✔Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship
IDALS job - answer✔Responsible for certifying pesticide applicators.
FFDCA - answer✔Federal food drug and cosmetic act.
FFDCA job - answer✔Federal law regulating the amount of pesticide residues contained on
commodities of food
Residues - answer✔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 - answer✔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 - answer✔Amount of pesticide applied to a site usually expressed as a liquid or
dry measure per unit area
Pre harvest interval - answer✔Part of the pesticide label that defines the number of days after
application of a pesticide before a crop can be harvested.
FQPA - answer✔Food quality protection act
FQPA job - answer✔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
, ©BRAINBARTER 2024/2025
WPS - answer✔worker protection standard
WPS JOB - answer✔Set of regulations from the EPA aimed at reducing the risk of of pesticide
poisonings, injuries, and exposure to agriculture workers and handlers.
ESA - answer✔Endangered species act
ESA JOB - answer✔Program for the conservation of threatened or endangered plants and
animals and the habitats in which they are found
Endangered species - answer✔Species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or significant
portion of its range
Threatened species - answer✔Species that is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable
future throughout all or a significant portion of its range
Rinsates - answer✔Solution of water or oil and pesticide left after rinsing a tank; rinse water
Hazardous waste - answer✔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 - answer✔Resource conservation and recovery act
RCRA JOB - answer✔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 - answer✔Regulate pesticide use in Iowa
Pesticide applicator records - answer✔-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
