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Alabama OTPC Study CardsFive mains groups of pests. - Answer -1. Insects
2. Snails and slugs
3. Vertebrates
4. Plant disease agents
5. Weeds
Pest - Answer -living things that compete with human beings for food, fiber, and space or attach humans
directly
Hosts - Answer -living plants or animals some pests depend on for survival
Name two identifying characteristics common to all adult insects - Answer -Six jointed legs
Three body regions
Two characteristics which aid in distinguishing one insect from another - Answer -Wings
Mouthparts
Explain the differences between the basic life cycles of insects - Answer -Some change only in size as
they develop
,Some change form slightly
Some change completely in form and size
Gradual Life Cycle - Answer -Eggs - Nymph - Adult
Also referred to "Simple"
Complete Life Cycle - Answer -Egg - Larva - Pupa - Adult
Three characteristics of mites, ticks and spiders - Answer -Eight jointed legs
Two body regions
Lack wings
List four types of vertebrate animals that can be pests - Answer -Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
List types of living organisms that cause plant diseases - Answer -Fungi
Bacteria
Viruses
Nematodes
List three main ways a plant responds to infection by a plant disease agent - Answer -Overdevelopment
of tissue
Underdevelopment of tissue
Death of tissue
Define weeds - Answer -Weeds are plants growing where thay are not wanted or in a way that is not
desireable
, Characteristics of herbaceous grasses - Answer -One leaf as the emerge
Leaves narrow and upright; veins parallel
Fibrous root system
Growing point sheathed and under soil surface
Growing point gradually moves above soil as plant matures
Chracteristics of herbaceous broadleaves - Answer -Two leaves as they emerge
Leaves broad with net-like veins
Exposed growing points at end of each stem
Perennial broadleaved plant may have growing points on roots and stems below soil
Chracteristics of woody plants - Answer -brush and shrubs having several stems and less that 10 feet tall
Trees - single stem and greater than 10 feet tall
Annuals - Answer -complete life cycle in less than 12 months
Explain the developmental stages of plants - Answer -Seedkubg - small with seed leaves present
Vegetative rapid growth of stems, roots, and foliage. Water and nutrient uptake rapid
Seed production - little or no growth; produces fruit. Water and nutrient uptake and movement slow
and directed to reproductive parts
Maturity - little or no growthe. Movement of water and nutrients slow.
Biennials - Answer -complete life cycle in 2 years
Perennials - Answer -live more than 2 years; ma live indefinitely
Winter vs. Summer Annuals - Answer -Winter annuals germinate in the fall, examples: cheat chickweed,
henbit, little barley, annual bluegrass and wild mustard.
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