View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 "Nature Fights Back".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There has been a huge increase in the incidence of ___________ and in our awareness of it in fewer than 200 years.
(a) Virus
(b) Pneumonia
(c) Malignancy
(d) Influenza

2. Because animals are affected by chemicals, scientists are having a hard time finding uncontaminated animals to serve as _________ in experiments.
(a) Controls
(b) Examples
(c) Subjects
(d) Helpers

3. Our individual bodies have a kind of _______, just as the larger environment does.
(a) Resistance
(b) Ecology
(c) Threshold
(d) Endurance

4. The Earth itself is ________ only as long as the creatures within it are.
(a) Useful
(b) Clean
(c) Promising
(d) Healthy

5. Repeated spraying lead to poisoned environments in which not only are resident creatures killed, but also those that _________ there.
(a) Visiting
(b) Are near to
(c) Were born
(d) Migrate

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the smallest organisms of Earth and they live in the ________.

2. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?

3. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?

4. What kind of creature plays a vital role as a source for food, as well as being an aerator, a scavenger, and a source of bait?

5. What is not produced as a result of not having the pollination process continue?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 221 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample