WorksheetsComparing Distinguishing Characteristics of Pests
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
When insects are worms or caterpillars, what is their stage of development?
Adult
Egg
Fly
Larva
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 mouthparts?
Chewing
Siphoning
Piercing-sucking
Rasping-sucking
Marcel notices that the leaves of his bedding plants have been damaged by chewing insects. Which insects aremost likely responsible for the damage?
Grasshoppers
Butterflies
Thrips
Aphids
Jana finds insects on her bedding plants. She knows they are insects because of their:
single body region and eight legs.
four body regions and twenty legs
three body regions and six legs.
multiple body regions and hundred legs.
Insects with toothed jaws that bite and tear their food have what type of mouth parts?
Grinding
Multiple
Sucking
Chewing
Melanie finds aphids on her plant. She ismost concerned the aphids will damage her plants by:
piercing and sucking.
chewing.
rasping and sucking.
sponging.
Which stage of development is most likely missing when an insect goes through incomplete metamorphosis?
Pupa
Adult
Nymph
Egg
Insects can be distinguished from spiders because insects have:
no wings
6 legs
2 body section
8 legs
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.
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
Mosaic virus
Leaf spot
Mildew
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:
damping-off.
smut.
canker.
mosaic.
Star 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
Leaf spot
Damping-off
Mildew
Samantha learns that for a plant to contract a disease it must have:
dry soil.
an ailment.
a pathogen.
an insect problem.
What symptoms does Pam see if her seedlings have a damping-off problem?
Rusty growth on upper leaf surface of seedlings
Circular black spots on upper leaf surface
White coating on plant leaves
Seedlings rotting off at soil level
Diseases are common with horticultural crops because most plants are grown in highly moist conditions and at warm temperatures that make a favorable:
genetics.
acidity.
repellent.
environment.
Viral, fungal, and bacterial describe the origin for types of:
germination.
diseases.
pollination.
plants.
Noah learns that tobacco mosaic virus can also attack:
tomatoes.
rubber plants.
radishes.
corn.
Brad read online that bacteria are what type of microorganisms?
Single-celled
Particular
General
Double-celled
