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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 "Indiscriminately from the Skies".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did farm animals stop doing as a result of the fire any eradication program?
(a) Walking
(b) Eating
(c) Stop producing healthy young
(d) Gaining weight

2. What posed no threat, only a minor annoyance, yet was still the target of a massive spraying campaign?
(a) Mosquito
(b) Gypsy moth
(c) Fire ant
(d) Ladybug

3. There is evidence that chemicals travel via ____________.
(a) Animals
(b) The air
(c) Crops
(d) Groundwater

4. All of the Earth's watersystems are _____________, so contamination of a part is contamination of the whole.
(a) Separate
(b) Connected
(c) Dirty
(d) At risk

5. Chemical insecticides and herbicides are challenging because they are _____________.
(a) Difficult to detect
(b) Hidden from view
(c) Sometimes safe
(d) Ignored

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was intended to benefit from the removal of sagebrush from the American West?

2. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.

3. What is the toxin which is released through nuclear explosion?

4. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.

5. Studies on the __________ in areas previously sprayed with DDT have confirmed that DDT remains in the birds at least one generation after the spraying.

(see the answer key)

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