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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. ______________ birds have also died as a result of the elm spraying.
(a) Burrowing
(b) Treetop
(c) Blue
(d) Black

2. Studies on the __________ in areas previously sprayed with DDT have confirmed that DDT remains in the birds at least one generation after the spraying.
(a) Eagles
(b) Hawks
(c) Robins
(d) Buzzards

3. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.
(a) Tinkered
(b) Interacted
(c) Battled
(d) Grown

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 are printed in tiny type and largely ignored by consumers?
(a) Ingredient lists
(b) Instructions
(c) Package warnings
(d) Names of products

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In ___________ in the 1950s, the chemical that appeared in the water had actually been created spontaneously by the interaction of other chemicals present.

3. The Earth's soil is a ______________ of living creatures, all interdependent.

4. Repeated spraying lead to poisoned environments in which not only are resident creatures killed, but also those that _________ there.

5. What is also destroyed when the target insects are sprayed by chemicals, damaging and changing the ecosystem?

(see the answer key)

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