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25 Cards in this Set
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A pesticide that kills a wide variety of pests, both beneficial and harmful is....
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broad spectrum pesticide
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Who "blew the whistle" on DDT?
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Rachel Carson
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A law that regulates pesticides is....
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FIFRA
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FIFRA stands for...
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
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Release of sterile male insects and use of ladybugs is a means of....
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biological pest control
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A bad kind of pesticide to use is one that has _____ persistence in the environment.
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long
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As a pesticide moves up the food chain, it can be concentrated in the bodies of organisms. This is called...
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biomagnification
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When pesticides get into body tissue but don't come out, we refer to this as...
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bioaccumulation
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A law, FPQA, which regulates the amount of residual pesticides that can remain on food is the....
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Food Quality Protection Act
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Early pesticides were especially bad because...
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they had toxic heavy metals and did not biodegrade & often contaminated groundwater.
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Realistically, can we farm without using any pesticides whatsoever?
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No. We need some, but in a minimal, controlled way.
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What technique is now being utilized by sustainable farmers to cope with pests and still have a good crop?
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IPM = Integrated Pest Management
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What does IPM stand for?
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Integrated Pest Management
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GMO stands for....
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Genetically Modified Organism
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One big problem with GMO's is that they don't produce ____ so that the farmer can have the same crop next year.
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fertile seed.
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A huge problem with pesticide use is that pests build up a ______ to the -cide.
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Resistance
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Those pests that surve a pesticide application pass their "hardiness" on to the next generation making the farmer....
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apply more pesticide next year.
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Bt is short for....
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Bacillus thuringensis
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Bacillus thuringensis has a gene which when spliced into plants makes the plants ______ to its pests.
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toxic
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One way to control pests is use of _____ and ______ to disrupt their life cycles.
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hormones, pheromones
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What type of organism are most affected biomagnification of pesticides or other chemicals?
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Carnivores at the top of the food pyramid.
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Round-up Ready plants are those that when sprayed with Round Up are....
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not killed, but the weeds that grow around them are.
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The need to buy ever-increasing amounts of pesticide to overcome increasing bio-resitance is called....
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pesticide treadmill
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An effect that occurs over a long period of time is called...
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chronic effect
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An effect that occurs over a very short time period is called...
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an acute effect
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