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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 numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?
(a) Lakes
(b) Cats
(c) Birds
(d) Pebbles

2. The majority of the Earth's surface is covered with __________.
(a) Land
(b) Trees
(c) Birds
(d) Water

3. What is not produced as a result of not having the pollination process continue?
(a) Stones
(b) Leaves
(c) Fruit
(d) Air

4. Without plants, there could be no _________ of any kind.
(a) Animals
(b) Greenery
(c) Food
(d) Pollution

5. How long can chemicals remain in the soil to which they are applied?
(a) 1 year
(b) 1 month
(c) 12 years
(d) A few days

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?

2. What is plentiful in the streams, providing good fishing spots since early settler times?

3. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.

4. Other crops show signs of damage or ______ when planted in contaminated soil.

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

(see the answer key)

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