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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "Realms of the Soil".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?
(a) Fish population
(b) Migratory birds
(c) Changing leaves
(d) Waves

2. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.
(a) Organic
(b) Dangerous
(c) Widespread
(d) Lethal

3. What is the name for chemicals that mix with other pollutants and substances in the water, producing unidentifiable results?
(a) Gunk
(b) Trep
(c) Sludge
(d) Muck

4. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.
(a) Library
(b) Toilet
(c) Wildlife refuge
(d) Swimming pool

5. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?
(a) Smog
(b) Insects
(c) White powder
(d) Black birds

Short Answer Questions

1. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.

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

3. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.

4. What is the most important earth-dwelling creature, according to Carson?

5. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?

(see the answer key)

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