College of Agriculture and Forestry

Mindanao State University at Naawan

CRP002- Prelim exam
Name: Lean Divine R. Coyoca Date: April 7, 2021

I. Encircle the letter of your best answer and with no erasures.

1. Applying an optimum amount of water to a crop results in quick-growing, healthy, and pest-
resistant plants.
A. Source of water
B. Irrigation
C. Fertigation
D. Water Distribution
2. The crop plants are avoided by the pest because they do not like it.
A. Tolerance
B. Palatability
C. Nonpreference
D. Antibiosis
3. Other terms for this operation include relay intercropping, and interplanting.
A. Crop Rotation
B. Multiple Cropping
C. Overseeding and Undersowing
D. Strip Cropping
4. Growing several consecutive crops in the same field in a single year can addresses pest
problems on an annual basis.
A. Intercropping
B. Multiple Cropping
C. Overseeding and Undersowing
D. Mixed intercropping
5. Growing two or more crops in broad, alternating has many of the benefits of
intercropping but allows a broader range of mechanized field operations.
A. Crop Rotation
B. Multiple Cropping
C. Overseeding and Undersowing
D. Strip Cropping
6. Growing two or more crops in the same, alternate, or double-rows often results in reduced
pest problems.
A. Intercropping
B. Multiple Cropping
C. Overseeding and Undersowing
D. Mixed intercropping
7. Practices that can prevent pest problems because they encourage good crop health and
bolster crop resistance to pests.
A. Farming System
B. Good agronomic practices
C. Crop Health
 D. Seasonal crop Planting
8. Plants cause a reduction in the biological performance of the pest.
A. Antibiosis
B. Tolerance
C. Palatability
D. Nonpreference
9. Many pests show increased vigour when exposed to sub-lethal doses of pesticide - a
phenomenon known as?
A. Pest Replacement
B. Pest Resistance
C. Pest Resurgence
D. Hormoligosis
10. Can occur when a broad-spectrum control measure reduces both pest and natural enemy
populations.
A. Pest Replacement
B. Pest Resistance
C. Pest Resurgence
D. Hormoligosis
11. The distance between plants in a field effects air circulation and light penetration below the
crop canopy, potentially altering the understory microclimate.
A. Cropping Pattern
B. Plant Spacing
C. Intercropping
D. Strip Cropping
12. When pests are exposed to multiple controls, the pest population is less likely to develop
resistance to any particular one.
A. Diversification of control method
B. Switching life-stage target.
C. Limited spray windows.
D. Control Tactics
13. Shifting crops from field to field over several seasons can reduce or prevent the buildup of
pests, especially non-mobile or soil-borne varieties.
A. Crop Rotation
B. Multiple Cropping
C. Overseeding and Undersowing
D. Mixed intercropping

14. Using a low dosage of pesticide or not spraying part of the crop will allow some susceptible
individuals to survive.
A. Diversification of control method
B. Switching life-stage target.
C. Limited spray windows.
a. Low kill strategy
15. This develops in an insect population because of natural genetic variation in a population's
susceptibility to pesticides.
A. Pest Replacement
B. Pest Resistance
C. Pest Resurgence
D. Hormoligosis
16. In most agroecosystems, crops are planted, grow, and are harvested at the same time.
A. Domesticated plants
B. Phonological synchrony
C. Crop Development
D. Agroecosystem
17. The yearly sequence and spatial arrangement of crops or of crops and fallow on a given
area.
A. Cropping Pattern
B. Plant Spacing
C. Intercropping
D. Crop Rotation
18. By spraying for only a certain period in the season, only one generation is exposed to the
pesticide and resistance development is delayed.
A. Diversification of control method
B. Switching life-stage target.
C. Limited spray windows.
D. Low kill strategy
19. An Agroecological Analysis example of crop production system that is more like a natural
ecosystem.
A. Hom Mali (Jasmine) rice production in Northeast Thailand
B. Hom Mali (Jasmine) rice production in Northwest Thailand
C. Hom Mali corn production in Northeast Thailand
D. Hom Mali (Jasmine) rice production in Northeast Thailand differs from the monsoon
forest of Africa.
20. Plants can tolerate the pest and still provide an adequate yield
A. Nonpreference
B. Palatability
C. Antibiosis
D. Tolerance.
21. The most fundamental concept underlying the development and application of IPM is?
A. Agroecosystem
B. Agroecology
C. Farming System
D. Biodiversity
22. Provides an alternative to the single weapon approach and is characterized by management
of pests rather than their control.
A. Principles of IPM
B. Integrated Pest Management or IPM
 C. Agroecology
D. Ecosystem
23. Occurs when a minor or secondary pest becomes an important pest due to control
measures used on the target pest population.
A. Pest Replacement
B. Pest Resistance
C. Pest Resurgence
D. Hormoligosis
24. When the resistance mechanism to a particular pesticide is known, it may be possible to add
a compound to the pesticide which blocks the resistance mechanism.
A. Pesticide rejuvenation
B. Switching life-stage target
C. Limited spray windows.
D. Control Tactics
25. Crop plants that are bred to resist certain pests are an important component of IPM.
A. Disease-Free Plants and Seeds
B. Host-plant resistance
C. Crop genetic diversity
D. Plant Appropriate Crops and Cultivars

II. Enumerate the following:

1. 3 IPM methods main categories.

 Prevention
 Intervention
 regulation
2. Provide the 4 several methods that can prevent pest problems under Spatial Methods of
Prevention.
 Crop pattern
 Plant spacing
 Intercropping
 Strip cropping
3. Provide the 3 several methods that can prevent pest problems under Sequence-related
Methods of Prevention.
 Crop rotation
 Multiple cropping
 Overseeding and Undersowing
4. Provide the 2 several methods that can prevent pest problems under Planting Materials and
Inputs.
 Host-plant resistance
 Disease-free plants and seeds
5. Provide the 3 possible specific preventative agronomic practices.

III. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the correct answers.
 1. The first principle is that the basic management unit of IPM is the agroecosystem and that any
management action that does not consider this may produce unexpected and even undesirable
effects.
2. The Economic Injury Level concept was first proposed by Stern et al. in 1959 as "The lowest
population density of a pest that will cause economic damage; or the amount of pest injury
which will justify the cost of control.
3. Pesticide resistance develops in an insect population because of natural genetic variation in a
population's susceptibility to pesticides.

4. The second principle is that any pest population can exist at some tolerable level and this
concept can be applied to the development of economic injury levels and action thresholds.
Strategies to achieve high levels of control using chemical pesticides can result in the
development of serious agrobiological problems.
5. The gain threshold is the intervention cost per area/value per unit of crop.
6. Increasing the biodiversity of the agroecosystem will increase system stability and reduce pest
outbreaks.
7. Preventing the occurrence of pest problems before they can cause economic damage is by far
the most preferred approach in IPM and the key to prevention is crop health.
8. The third principle is that IPM focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of natural control factors
to regulate pest populations. Only when this strategy fails are chemical pesticides and other
tactics used.
9. Reducing the population of a pest's natural enemies can cause pest resurgence or pest
replacement.
10. “Economic thresholdIs the pest density at which control measures should be implemented to
prevent it from reaching the Economic-injury level”

IV. Define the following in your own words and understanding.

1. IPM
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable pest-
control strategy that utilizes a range of common-sense techniques.
2. AGROECOLOGY
Agroecology is the application of ecological science to the management of sustainable
agriculture, with an agroecosystem defined as a farming system that can be thought of as an
ecosystem. Agroecology's aim is to build and maintain long-term agroecosystems.
3. ECONOMIC INJURY LEVEL (EIL)
It's a production term that recognizes the effects of crop damage on agriculture.
4. ECONOMIC THRESHOLD LEVEL (ETL)
The pest density at which control measures should be introduced in order to prevent the pest
from reaching the extent of economic damage.
5. PREVENTION
It is one of the IPM main categories.