Icides
This is used to control any pest, plant or animal.
What is pesticide?
These are small particles that require a host cell to multiply and often harm the organism or plant.
What is a virus?
This is a plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season.
What is an annual?
These herbicides kill only certain plants.
What are selective herbicides?
This means to apply after the pest shows itself.
What is postemergence?
This is used to kill weeds.
What is herbicide?
These hormones stimulate cell division.
What are cytokinins?
This is a plant that completes its life cycle in two growing seasons.
What is a biennial?
These herbicides kill all plants.
What are nonselective herbicides?
This means to apply before the pest shows itself.
What is preemergence?
This is used to kill fungi.
What is fungicide?
These are microscopic roundworms that feed on plant roots.
What are nematodes?
This is a plant that completes its life cycle indefinitely.
What is a perennial?
This is total removal of an infected plant or animal.
What is eradication?
This is a plant condition that impairs normal physiological functions.
What is a disease?
This is used to kill all rodents.
What is rodenticide?
These are hormones that stimulate cell division and elongation.
What are gibberillins?
This refers to living or with oxygen.
What is biotic?
This control measure uses natural agents to spread the spread of a pest or disease.
What is biological control?
This is a pest management tool that uses all control methods.
What is integrated pest management?
This is used to kill nematodes?
What is nematicide?
This term means to isolate an animal or plant from a pest or disease.
What is quarantine?
What is abiotic?
This control measure means to physically (or with machinery) remove the pest.
This is a pest that the control method is meant to eradicate.
What is targeted pest?