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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "Surface Waters and Underground Seas".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.
(a) Lethal
(b) Organic
(c) Widespread
(d) Dangerous

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

3. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?
(a) They disappear
(b) They have green spots on their faces
(c) They begin to hurt each other
(d) They become ill

4. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.
(a) Phosphorus
(b) Carbon
(c) Boron
(d) Arsenic

5. Chemicals can travel down ___________ or in underground aquifers to the bodies of water.
(a) Streets
(b) Mountains
(c) Sewers
(d) Watersheds

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Since the 1940s, more than 200 chemicals have been created for the purpose of _____________.

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

4. All of the Earth's watersystems are _____________, so contamination of a part is contamination of the whole.

5. There is a widespread, critical shortage of ____________ across the globe.

(see the answer key)

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