Question: Is DDT 100% guaranteed to work?
Answer: DDT use is not always effective

Question: How may species have been found to be resistant to DDT?
Answer: nineteen

Question: On estimate how many megatonnes of pesticides were used between 2006 and 2007?
Answer: approximately 2.4

Question: What amount of conventional pesticide use does the agricultural sector account for?
Answer: 80%

Question:  Pesticides contain at least how many ingredients?
Answer: more than 1,055

Question: How maney pesticides are offered for sale in the US?
Answer: over 20,000

Question: What do monetary savings in crops from the use of pesticide amount to?
Answer: $40 billion

Question: What amount is spent annualoy on pesticides?
Answer: $10 billion

Question: How are consumers able to benefit from saved crops?
Answer: vast quantities of produce available year-round

Question: In which area do pesticides creat jobs?
Answer: agrichemical sector

Question: How is the health of the general publis affected by pesticides?
Answer: control of insect-borne diseases and illnesses

Question: Can pesticides have a serious effect on people?
Answer: cause acute and delayed health effects

Question: What is one of the most serious effects of exposure to pesticides?
Answer: cancer

Question: What is thought to possibly cause neurobehavioral alterations?
Answer: organophosphate insecticide exposures

Question: How many workers in agriculture die a year from severly poisining pesticides in developing countries?
Answer: 18,000

Question: What careers put people in danger of being exposed to pesticide poisining?
Answer: groomers, groundskeepers, and fumigators

Question: In developing countries, how many workers are exposed to mild pesticide poisining?
Answer: as 25 million

Question: Why are 99% of pesticide related deaths in underdeveloped countries?
Answer: inadequate regulation

Question: What pecentage of sprayed pesticides affect the wrong species?
Answer: Over 98%

Question: What is affected when pesticides don't reach their target?
Answer: non-target species, air, water and soil

Question: What is it called when pesticides are caught in the wind and carried to unintended areas?
Answer: Pesticide drift

Question: Pesticides contribute to what sort of pollution?
Answer: water pollution

Question: What is the effect of pesticide drift?
Answer: potentially contaminating

Question: Why are hydrocarbon pesticides not excreted?
Answer: dissolve in fats

Question: How are levels of pesticides higher going up the food chain?
Answer: Biological magnification

Question: The movement of pesticides from wawrme to cooler climates is called what?
Answer: Global distillation

Question: How could pesticides travel over hundreds of miles?
Answer: the wind

Question: What feature is wanted to assist with reducing negative impacts of pesticides?
Answer: that pesticides be degradable

Question: How else can negative impacts of pesticides be reduced?
Answer: quickly deactivated in the environment

Question: What is one way by which pesticides lose their efficacy?
Answer: presence of halogens

Question: What may slow pesticide movement?
Answer: Adsorption to soil

Question: What is one thing that can be used in place of pesticides?
Answer: methods of cultivation

Question: What natural product can be used to control pests?
Answer: composted yard waste

Question: Why are alternative methods of pest control gaining popularity?
Answer: safer than traditional chemical pesticides

Question: What agency has offered acceptance of safer pesticides?
Answer: EPA

Question: What is one non chemical way of dealing with pests?
Answer: interfering with insect breeding

Question: What does IPM stand for?
Answer: integrated pest management

Question: How can the location and amount of insects be changed?
Answer: behavior-modifying stimuli

Question: What is one thing that can be used to pull pests?
Answer: food additives

Question: What is the name of the process by which pests are attracted and repelled using IPM. 
Answer: Push-Pull

Question: How much was Sweden able to lower thier pesticide usage?
Answer: halved its use

Question: What other country has reduced its pesticide usage?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: What natural substance has been found to effectively increase crop yields
Answer: carbon to nitrogen

Question: What amount of gain in crops can be contributed to application of composted yard waste?
Answer: 10% to 212%

Question: What is one type of pesticide?
Answer: biodegradable

Question: How long may it take for persistent pesticides to be broken down?
Answer: months or years

Question: What quality caused DDT to build up in various organisms?
Answer: persistence

Question: What is one way to classify pesticides?
Answer: type of pest they control

Question: What are sulfonyureas commonly used for?
Answer: weed control

Question: Nicosulfuron, triflusulfuron methyl and chlorsulfuron can be classified as what type of pesticides?
Answer: broad-spectrum herbicides

Question: The restriction of what enzyme allows broad-spectrum herbicides to kill plants?
Answer: acetolactate synthase

Question: The amount of material used as a crop protection measure decreased from 1kg/ha in what year to its current 1%?
Answer: 1960s

Question: Is the trade of pesticides and pesticide treated goods limited to the United States?
Answer: traded across international borders

Question: What commitee deals with differences in rules governing the use of pesticides among different countries?
Answer: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

Question: When was the international code which governs the distribution and use of pesticides established?
Answer: 1985

Question: How recently were voluntary standards of pesticide regulation updated?
Answer: 2002

Question: What country has attempted to better the controls of pesticide exchanges?
Answer: London

Question: What is one agency who is trying to help make the trade of pesticides safer?
Answer: United Nations Codex Alimentarius Commission

Question: What is one important thing that should be present when countries are trading with pesticides?
Answer: prior informed consent

Question: Are these agencies a requirement in the countries where they exist?
Answer: initiatives operate on a voluntary basis

Question: What is one measure taken to keep society safe from improper pesticide use?
Answer: pesticide applicator regulation

Question: What is a choice that users of pesticides can make that will lower risks?
Answer: choosing less toxic pesticides

Question: What is one country that has sucessfully used IPM?
Answer: Australia

Question: Biological and botanical derivatives have what positive effects?
Answer: reduce health and environmental risks

Question: Who has the ability to make the choice of using less harmful pesticides?
Answer: applicators

Question: What is a measure of pesticides determined in EPA studies?
Answer: material is safe to use and the effectiveness

Question: Who is protected by EPA regulations?
Answer: humans or the environment

Question: Pesticides are inspected often to make sure they meet up to date safety regulations from what period of time.
Answer: before November 1984

Question: How often are pesticides produced more recently evaluated for safety?
Answer: every 15 years

Question: How could someone learn more about how to safely use and handle an unknow pesticide?
Answer: label

Question: What are pesticides that are thought to be extremely dangerous called?
Answer: restricted use pesticides

Question: What would qualify someone to use restricted use pesticides?
Answer: an exam

Question:  The EPA or other groups who govern pesticide use may inspect what?
Answer: Records of sales and use

Question: Agencies who regulate the environment exists in what regional capacities?
Answer: state or territorial

Question: What is the earliest records of humans using pesticides?
Answer: before 2000 BC