Question

Chemicals that are used to control weeds are called__________________ .

Answer 1

Weed: The unwanted plants that grow in the crop fields and extract nutrition from the soil and thus reduce the nutrient supply of our planned crops are known as weeds.

Weedicide:

1. These are inorganic chemicals that are sprayed in the crop fields and kill those weed plants.
2. These work very specifically and thus do not harm the crops we have planted in the field and selectively kill the weed.
3. Very common examples of weedicide are 2,4- Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid, Naphathelene acetic acid, etc.

Final answer:

Chemicals that are used to control weeds are called weedicide.