Control Measures and Effects of Using Chemicals on Pests

--------------------- is the process of removing unwanted plants.

• Crop filtering

• Grass removal

• Weeding

------------ is a poison used to destroy pests.

• Biological Pest Control

• Pesticide

• Genetic Engineering

• Overharvesting

Which of these is a biological control agent?

• Lady bugs

• Pesticides

• Herbicides

• Pulling up plants

_____ is the most efficient method of pest control.

• Integrated Pest Management

• Biological Controls

• Pesticide Use

• Herbicide Use

Which of the following best describes Integrated Pest Management?

• Spraying broad-spectrum chemical pesticides as the first line of defense

• Complete elimination of all chemical pesticides

• Implementing a variety of cultivation and biological techniques and only spraying pesticides as a last resort

• Utilizing only trap cropping and crop rotation

Pesticide can become ............ contamination, if mistakenly sprayed on food.

• Chemical

• Physical

• Microbiology

Suffering the impact of swarms of locusts, a farmer uses an airplane to spray an insecticide over 1,500 acres of his corn field. This farmer is trying to address this pest problem by using?

• A Chemical treatment.

• An Agricultural treatment.

• An Ecological control.

• Integrated pest management.

Name this pest.

• Snail/slug

• Caterpillar

• Weevil

• Borer

Crop rotation prevents---------------------

• badgers

• a build up of pests

• the farmer having to plough

• water pollution

A biological control uses a...............................

• Predator to control a pest

• Pest to control a predator