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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. __________ are simply plants that are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(a) Bushes
(b) Trees
(c) Flowers
(d) Weeds

2. The campaign in the American West to replace _______ with grass is one example of man's arrogant approach to plants.
(a) Cacti
(b) Trees
(c) Sand
(d) Sagebrush

3. ______________ birds have also died as a result of the elm spraying.
(a) Blue
(b) Black
(c) Burrowing
(d) Treetop

4. The _________ of Wyoming which supported many animal species were unintentionally killed, leading to massive animal death.
(a) Trees
(b) Willows
(c) Sagebrush
(d) Weeds

5. Attempts to control a particular ________ in Clear Lake, California resulted in massive bird death.
(a) Gnat
(b) Fish
(c) Bird
(d) Spider

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes more numerous when the bird population goes down?

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

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

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.

5. Chemicals can travel down ___________ or in underground aquifers to the bodies of water.

(see the answer key)

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