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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. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.
(a) A year
(b) A decade
(c) Millennia
(d) A few months

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

3. Which state has abandoned broad eradication in favor of the control in #117?
(a) Florida
(b) Ohio
(c) California
(d) Maine

4. Studies on the __________ in areas previously sprayed with DDT have confirmed that DDT remains in the birds at least one generation after the spraying.
(a) Robins
(b) Eagles
(c) Hawks
(d) Buzzards

5. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.
(a) Chemicals
(b) Biodiversity
(c) Possibility
(d) Regulation

Short Answer Questions

1. The _________ of Wyoming which supported many animal species were unintentionally killed, leading to massive animal death.

2. If a robin did not die, it often suffered from __________ as a result of being exposed to DDT.

3. How was the large population of sagebrush destroyed in the West?

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

5. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.

(see the answer key)

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