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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. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.
(a) A year
(b) A few months
(c) Millennia
(d) A decade

2. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.
(a) Bombs
(b) Charcoal
(c) Trees
(d) Sunlight

3. What group of substances includes insecticides and pesticides?
(a) Helpful mixtures
(b) Necessary evils
(c) Organic cleaners
(d) Toxic chemicals

4. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."
(a) Change
(b) Control others
(c) Do what we want
(d) Know

5. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.
(a) Exhaust fumes
(b) Packaged foods
(c) Food chain
(d) Air

Short Answer Questions

1. Humankind is producing new ________ in the laboratory, though these used to be limited only to nature's actions.

2. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.

3. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.

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

5. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.

(see the answer key)

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