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

2. 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

3. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?
(a) Scientists
(b) Hummingbirds
(c) Bees
(d) Humans

4. What is not usable for drinking, irrigation, or industry?
(a) Lake water
(b) Frozen water
(c) Stream water
(d) Seawater

5. What is the most important earth-dwelling creature, according to Carson?
(a) Earthworm
(b) Mole
(c) Millipede
(d) Mouse

Short Answer Questions

1. There is a disagreement among scientists about how much _______ can be safely stored in the body.

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

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

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

5. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.

(see the answer key)

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