Integrated Pest Management

Question 1

Types of widely used chemical pesticides

Answer 1

Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
Organic Phosphates
Carbamates

Question 2

organic compounds that contain chlorine atoms DDT fat soluble

Answer 2

Chlorinated Hydrocarbons

Question 3

Malathion and parathion neurotoxins water soluble

Answer 3

Organic Phosphates

Question 4

nonpersistent pesticide, nerve poisons Sevin, only last for a few days to few weeks

Answer 4

Carbamates

Question 5

Unintended consequences of pesticides

Answer 5

cancer, birth defects, suppress immune functions, poison, death

Question 6

Impact on the food web

Answer 6

180-Tributyl tin TBT, fish cancers, disappearance of amphibians, reduction in birds of prey like peregrine falcon, dutch elm disease, from robins eating earthworms

Question 7

Environmental, Genetic, Natural

Answer 7

Sustainable pest control

Question 8

Crop Rotation, Trap Crops, Heteroculture

Answer 8

Environmental Controls

Question 9

Genetic resistance, sterile-male technique

Answer 9

Genetic Controls

Question 10

Pheromones, Insect hormones, hormone inhibitors

Answer 10

Natural Controls

Question 11

Covering all the techniques that do not fit into other methods of pest control

Answer 11

Cultural Controls