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WorksheetsHort 1- Test 6 Pests
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
A sponging-type insect most likely damages a plant by:
carrying diseases from other plants.
rasping the leaves and sucking sap from the plant.
piercing the leaves and sucking sap from the plant.
chewing on the leaves
Insects with toothed jaws that bite and tear their food have what type of mouth parts?
chewing
grinding
multiple
sucking
Melanie finds aphids on her plant. She is most concerned the aphids will damage her plants by:
sponging
rasping and sucking.
chewing
piercing and sucking
Marcel notices that the leaves of his bedding plants have been damaged by chewing insects. Which insects are most likely responsible for the damage?
Aphids
butterflies
grass hoppers
thrips
When insects are worms or caterpillars, what is their stage of development?
Adult
larva
egg
fly
Joey knows butterflies cause little or no damage to his plants. The basis for his opinion is most likely because butterflies have what type of mouth parts?
Pierce-Sucking
Chewing
Siphoning
Rasping-Sucking
Which stage of development is most likely missing when an insect goes through incomplete metamorphosis?
egg
nymph
pupa
adult
Insects can be distinguished from spiders because insects have:
2 body sections
6 legs
8 legs
no wings
Jana finds insects on her bedding plants. She knows they are insects because of their:
single body region and eight legs.
multiple body regions and hundred legs.
three body regions and six legs.
four body regions and twenty legs.
What symptoms does Pam see if her seedlings have a damping-off problem?
Rusty growth on upper leaf surface of seedlings
Seedlings rotting off at soil level
White coating on plant leaves
Circular black spots on upper leaf surface
Viral, fungal, and bacterial describe the origin for types of:
diseases
germination
pollination
plants
After Paula smoked a cigarette during her break at work, her boss made sure she washed her hands before handling the tomato plants. What could she spread to the tomato plants?
Damping-off
leaf spot
mildew
mosaic virus
Brad read online that bacteria are what type of microorganisms?
Double-celled
Particular
Singular
Single-celled
Noah learns that tobacco mosaic virus can also attack:
corn
raddishes
rubber plants
tomatoes
Samantha learns that for a plant to contract a disease it must have:
an ailment
dry soil
an insect problem
a pathogen
Rosa found distorted patterns of mottled colors—dark green, light green, yellow, and white—on the young leaves of her plants. This condition, caused by viruses, is called:
canker
damping-off
mosaic
smut
Diseases are common with horticultural crops because most plants are grown in highly moist conditions and at warm temperatures that make a favorable:
acidity
environment
genetics
repellent
Fernando notices that his plants have quickly turned brown and look as though they had been burned. What disease is most likely causing this problem?
bacterial blight
damping off
leaf spot
mildew
