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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) Millennia
(b) A decade
(c) A year
(d) A few months

2. Only _________ have gained the ability to reserve the roles and actually change the environment they live in.
(a) Human beings
(b) Plants
(c) Animals
(d) Insects

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

4. In ___________ in the 1950s, the chemical that appeared in the water had actually been created spontaneously by the interaction of other chemicals present.
(a) Colorado
(b) Florida
(c) Maine
(d) California

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the birds provide naturally that made their deaths all the more significant?

2. The majority of the Earth's surface is covered with __________.

3. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?

4. There is evidence that chemicals travel via ____________.

5. The business of chemical _______ is booming because people approach plant life without thinking about any perspective but their own immediate desires.

(see the answer key)

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