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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______________ is the basic process of life creation for everything from amoebae to humans.
(a) Cell ligation
(b) Cell mutation
(c) Cell respiration
(d) Cell division

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

3. What did farm animals stop doing as a result of the fire any eradication program?
(a) Walking
(b) Stop producing healthy young
(c) Gaining weight
(d) Eating

4. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.
(a) Adapted
(b) Killed
(c) Used control
(d) Moved

5. Much of the world's water is polluted by ________ from many sources.
(a) Nuclear plants
(b) Dirt
(c) Waste
(d) Animals

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The limits the government has established regarding chemical levels in foods are __________.

3. Without functioning ____________, even our organs are useless.

4. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.

5. The population of Japanese Beetles in sprayed areas is ______________ .

(see the answer key)

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