Pesticide Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Pesticide.

  • 2 Student Essays
  • 8 Encyclopedia Articles
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The Pesticide Study Pack contains:

Encyclopedia Articles (8)

1,072 words, approx. 4 pages
Pesticide Pesticides are natural or human-made substances used to kill pest species such as rodents and insects. It is not surprising that many of these substances are highly toxic not only to the pes... Read more
960 words, approx. 4 pages
Biopesticides Plants, growing in the wild or in cultivation, face numerous threats from insects, bacteria, viruses, and fungi, as well as from other plants. Biopesticides are inert substances or livin... Read more
830 words, approx. 3 pages
Pesticides A pesticide is a chemical that is used to kill insects, weeds, and other organisms to protect humans, crops, and livestock. A broad-spectrum pesticide that kills all living organisms is cal... Read more
1,729 words, approx. 6 pages
Pesticides Pesticides are chemicals that are used to kill insects, weeds, and other organisms to protect humans, crops, and livestock. There have been many substantial benefits of the use of pesticide... Read more
528 words, approx. 2 pages
Pesticide The word "pesticide" is a broad term that refers to any device, method, or chemical that kills plants or animals that compete for humanity's food supply or are otherwise undesirable. Pestici... Read more
1,695 words, approx. 6 pages
Pesticide Pesticides are chemicals that are used to kill insects, weeds, and other organisms to protect humans, crops, and livestock. There have been many substantial benefits of the use of pesticid... Read more
2,559 words, approx. 9 pages
Pesticides Fumigators walking down a street in the Sultan Mosque area of Singapore and spraying a pesticide to rid the area of mosquitoes. (©Steve Raymer/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.) ... Read more
19,819 words, approx. 67 pages
For years, farmers have tried to halt the devastation to their crops caused by insects, weeds, and other pests. Until the twentieth century, they relied on crude mixtures based on poisons such as lead... Read more