1. The genus of mosquitoes that lay their eggs in rafts on the water surface is:
Anopheles
Aedes
Culex
Psorophora
2. Environmental conditions favoring long-term survival of adult mosquitoes include:
heavy rainfall and strong winds.
moderate temperatures and high humidity.
Hot temperatures and low humidity.
Short days and snowfall.
3. Mosquito larvae without a siphon are in the genus:
4. A control technician identifying a problem mosquito as Aedes sierrensis should consider inspecting and treating which sources?
Snow-melt pools and river outflows.
Saltwater and freshwater marshes.
Treeholes and man-made containers.
Agricultural irrigation ponds.
5. The usual bloodmeal sources of most Culex mosquito species include:
Large and small mammals.
Cattle and humans.
Birds and small mammals.
None of the above.
6. The western malaria mosquito is the common name for which mosquito species?
Anopheles freeborni
Aedes aegypti
Culex tarsalis
Psorophora columbiae
7. Culex erythrothorax larvae are usually associated with:
Organic pollutants.
Swiftly moving water.
Treeholes.
Tule and cattail marshes.
8. Saltwater marsh-breeding mosquitoes in California include:
Aedes ventrovittis and Aedes tahoensis.
Aedes melanimon and Aedes nigromaculis.
Aedes dorsalis and Aedes squamiger.
Aedes sierrensis.
9. Water conditions generally conducive to mosquito development include:
Standing, clean water.
Standing, organically rich water.
Water standing for very short times.
10. Categories of mosquito sources include:
Residential sources
Community or industrial sources.
Agricultural sources.
All of the above.
11. Community or industrial mosquito sources include:
Sewage plants, channels, and street gutters.
Lakes, streams, and snow-melt pools.
Wading pools, bird baths, and fish ponds.
Saltwater marshes and treeholes.
12. Transmission of human malaria parasites is by female mosquitoes of the genus:
Coquillettidia
13. The primary vector of the virus that causes arboviral encephalitis in California is:
Culiseta incidens.
Culex stigmatosoma.
Culex tarsalis.
Culiseta inornata.
14. In epidmiology of vectorborne diseases, the organism that results in the disease is known as a:
Pathogen.
Vector.
Host.
Reservoir.
15. Mosquitoes can be a problem somewhere in California:
Only in the warmer months (spring and summer).
Only in the warmest months (summer)
Only in the late summer and early fall.
Any time of the year.
16. The only place where one can be reasonably safe from mosquito bites in California is:
The highest elevations in the Sierra Nevada.
The coastal beaches.
Wildlife refuges.
17. In the case of arboviral encephalitis:
Most people bitten by infected mosquitoes become ill.
Most people bitten by infected mosquitoes die.
Few people bitten by infected mosquitoes become ill.
No people bitten by infected mosquitoes die.
18. A female mosquito with a blunt abdomen, short palpi, and the radial and medial cross veins on the wing in line is in the genus:
Culiseta
19. Mosquitoes that have many generations in a given year are called:
Uniparous
Multiparous
Univoltine
Multivoltine
20. When a mosquito suspends active physiological processes during some life cycle stage to survive adverse climatatic conditions, it said to be in a state of:
Diapause.
Dirunal suspension.
Suspended animation.
Climatic suspension.
21. A disease is:
An abnormal condition in a plant or animal caused by a microbial organism.
Any condition that causes death in a plant or animal.
Any condition caused by a parasite or microbe.
Any departure from normal health of a plant or animal.
22. The following conditions in humans can be considered diseases:
Malaria.
Vitamin C deficiency.
Hypersensitivity.
23. Which of the following measures are not presently effective in preventing malaria in humans?
Mosquito abatement.
The use of prophylactic drugs.
Treatment with a vaccine.
Personal protective measures.
24. Humans, monkeys, and gorillas are all considered:
To be invertebrates.
Primates.
To have evolved from birds.
To belong to the genus Homo.
25. Zoological nomenclature requires that all described animals be assigned:
A generic name and a specific name.
A specific (or trivial) name and a common name.
A generic and a subgeneric name (e.g., Aedes (Ochlerotatus)
A family name and a generic name.