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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "Earth's Green Mantle".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Humans __________ plants when an an immediate use is not obvious for a plant.
(a) Test
(b) Destroy
(c) Move
(d) Eat
2. Humankind is producing new ________ in the laboratory, though these used to be limited only to nature's actions.
(a) DNA
(b) Chemicals
(c) Plants
(d) Wastes
3. Since the 1940s, more than 200 chemicals have been created for the purpose of _____________.
(a) Pest control
(b) War
(c) Experimentation
(d) Pharmaceuticals
4. The _________ of Wyoming which supported many animal species were unintentionally killed, leading to massive animal death.
(a) Weeds
(b) Trees
(c) Willows
(d) Sagebrush
5. _____________ hurts the soil on a virtually permanent basis, according to Carson.
(a) DDT
(b) Arsenic
(c) Wild orange oil
(d) Corn crops
Short Answer Questions
1. Chemical insecticides and herbicides are challenging because they are _____________.
2. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.
3. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.
4. What is plentiful in the streams, providing good fishing spots since early settler times?
5. Without the Earth's ________, there could be no plants.
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