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

2. What was the source of the contamination in the eagle population?
(a) Trees
(b) Fish
(c) Nests
(d) Other birds

3. What becomes more numerous when the bird population goes down?
(a) Insects
(b) Animals
(c) Tree leaves
(d) Earthworms

4. In England, the treatment of _______ with chemicals resulted in widespread bird deaths.
(a) Seeds
(b) Trees
(c) Soil
(d) Water

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.

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

3. Much of the world's water is polluted by ________ from many sources.

4. Which state has abandoned broad eradication in favor of the control in #117?

5. __________ are simply plants that are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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