Name:______Mr.Ogren
Protecting Food Resources: Pesticides & Pest Control Webquest
1. Starting with page http://epa.gov/pesticides/about/index.htm What is a pesticide?
2. What is a pest? Provide examples of pests.
3. Go to the main pesticide page, http://epa.gov/pesticides/index.htm , and follow the link to types if pesticides. What are the major classes of chemical pesticides and briefly describe what they do and how they work.
4. What is a biopesticide? What are the major types of biopesticides and briefly describe what they do and how they work.
5. List and describe at least 6 different major types of pesticides that you were unaware of before you saw the list.
6. Use the following page http://epa.gov/pesticides/index.htm and its links to answer the next several questions. Follow the link to human health issues. What are the potential health effects of pesticides?
7. Before a pesticide can be approved use by the EPA the company must provide extensive scientific data. What kinds of information should those studies include? Follow the link to Regulating Pesticides. What are inert ingredients?
8. What are the ways that pesticide risk can be reduced? Take the link for Pesticides: Health and Safety then the link for Public Health Issues or go to http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/public.htm
9. Go to http://epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/ipm.htm . What is IPM? Describe what this approach includes.
10. Go to http://epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/index.htm and follow the link to the “Laws”. What is the FIFRA? What is its main purpose? What are some of its specific elements?
11. What is the FFDCA? What is its main purpose? What are some of its specific elements?
12. What is the FQPA? What is its main purpose? What are some of its specific elements?
Go to http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/ipm.html#conventional . Use the links in the table of contents [Proactive Strategies (Cultural Controls), Biological Controls, and Mechanical and Physical Controls] to answer the next several questions.
13. What is a cultural control method in IPM?
14. Describe several “crop structure” methods of cultural control IPM:
15. Describe several other non-crop structure methods of cultural control IPM:
16. What is “biological control” method of pest management and how does “farmscaping” work to accomplish biological control?
17. Describe how “physical and mechanical” methods of pest management work.
http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/landis.htm
http://ipmworld.umn.edu/ipmchap.htm
http://ipmworld.umn.edu/
http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/Pest_ID/planning/index.shtml
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/ipm.html#conventional
BE SURE YOU HAVE TAKEN GOOD NOTES FROM THE CHAPTER FOR YOUR QUIZ. YOU WILL ALSO BE WRITING AN AP PROMPT ON THIS TOPIC! You will be allowed TWO VISUAL ORGANIZERS ON THE ESSAY.