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Michigan Turfgrass 3a Practice Exam

This is an image of a multiple choice testWe created this quiz to help prepare applicators that are taking their Michigan 3A Turfgrass Pest Management exam.

Each question is worth 1 point with a max score of 44 points. Your score and the correct answers will be shown at the end of the exam as well as emailed to you.

Good Luck!

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1. 
You want to make 2 gallons of a 4 percent solution of a broadleaf herbicide. How many ounces of herbicide are needed?

2. 
Postemergence herbicides...

3. 
To promote healthy turf and reduce disease

4. 
Which of these chemicals can be applied to lawns (but not ponds or wetlands) to make the grass distasteful to geese?

5. 
Pesticides in the soil:

6. 
The milky spore disease bacterium...

7. 
Which of these factors is not a component of the disease pyramid?

8. 
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)

9. 
Which of these weeds will sprout from rhizomes

10. 
In an IPM program you should..

11. 
How many generations do Japanese beetles have each year?

12. 
Cool-season cultivars...

13. 
Which statement is true according to Regulation 637, Pesticide Use?

14. 
A rotary spreader creates more drift than a drop granular spreader.

15. 
Perennial weeds

16. 
You are applying fungicide to a lawn that measures 200x50 feet. In the middle of the lawn is a house that measures 60 x 25 ft and a swimming pool that has a 25 foot diameter. The drive measures 10 x 40 ft. The label application rate is 3 oz of fungicide per 1000 square feet. How many ounces of fungicide will be needed? (round to the nearest ounce)

17. 
Proper mowing means:

18. 
This type of nozzle is well suited for applying insecticides or fungicides in situations where complete coverage of the leaf surface is critical

19. 
Which of the following is a piercing sucking insect?

20. 
Which of the following methods is not effective for discouraging geese an may even attract them

21. 
You should apply a pesticide:

22. 
Herbicides are...

23. 
When should equipment be calibrated?

24. 
Winter annual broadleaf weeds are

25. 
Determine the amount of granular insecticide needed to treat 2 acres assuming a label rate of 2 pounds per 1000 square feet.

26. 
If you double the speed of your application equipment, how will it affect the application rate of a boom sprayer?

27. 
Which of these statements is FALSE?

28. 
What do moles eat?

29. 
Dandelions...

30. 
Good soil drainage...

31. 
Annual weeds are...

32. 
An insecticide applied to control white grubs

33. 
Which of these statements is FALSE?

34. 
Most turfgrasses grow best in shady locations.

35. 
Preemergence herbicides...

36. 
Infrequent and deep irrigation is the best way to prevent disease organisms in turf.

37. 
Leaf spot diseases...

38. 
Plants that have wider leaves with branched leaf veins are......

39. 
Which of these statements is FALSE

40. 
Resistance to pesticides comes from:

41. 
Which of these statements are TRUE?

42. 
Apply an insecticide...

43. 
Spring dead spot in bermudagrass:

44. 
Biennial weeds...

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