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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. The town Carson describes is one where townsfolk and farmers and wildlife all live in _____________.
(a) Harmony
(b) Conflict
(c) The same place
(d) Misery

2. What is plentiful in the streams, providing good fishing spots since early settler times?
(a) Guppies
(b) Insects
(c) Trout
(d) Eels

3. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?
(a) Migratory birds
(b) Fish population
(c) Waves
(d) Changing leaves

4. Toxic substances work to stop the body's natural functions; some of them may cause __________ to begin growing.
(a) Arms
(b) Resistance
(c) Poisonous reactions
(d) Cancer cells

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.

5. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.

(see the answer key)

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