View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "Surface Waters and Underground Seas".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?
(a) Birds
(b) Lakes
(c) Cats
(d) Pebbles

2. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.
(a) Palm
(b) Birch
(c) Maple
(d) Pine

3. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.
(a) Air
(b) Food chain
(c) Exhaust fumes
(d) Packaged foods

4. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.
(a) Used control
(b) Killed
(c) Adapted
(d) Moved

5. There is a widespread, critical shortage of ____________ across the globe.
(a) Filters
(b) Rain
(c) Fresh water
(d) Water treatment

Short Answer Questions

1. The town Carson describes _________ actually exist.

2. Attempts to control a particular ________ in Clear Lake, California resulted in massive bird death.

3. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.

4. Toxic substances work to stop the body's natural functions; some of them may cause __________ to begin growing.

5. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 179 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample