Pests And Pesticides

Question 1

What is: any organism considered an inconvenience or is harmful to man?

Answer 1

Pest

Question 2

What is: any chemical that kills past, drives them away, and/or prevents their development?

Answer 2

Pesticide

Question 3

What are two risks of pesticides?

Answer 3

1. Toxic to humans

2. Bioaccumulation/bioamplification

Question 4

What are two benefits of pesticides?

Answer 4

1. Crop protection

2. Food preservation

Question 5

What is bioaccumulation?

Answer 5

Chemicals are not broken down by an animal’s body and will accumulate in tissue and organs instead of being excerted [when needed to use, it poisons them]

Question 6

What is bioamplification?

Answer 6

Toxic chemicals stored in fat and oils of tissue and organs is passed onto the next trophic level through feeding, it becomes more concentrated at higher levels