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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. There is a disagreement among scientists about how much _______ can be safely stored in the body.
(a) Water
(b) Arsenic
(c) DDT
(d) Fat

2. Farms and orchards do NOT include these trees, in Carson's description.
(a) Maple
(b) Pine
(c) Birch
(d) Palm

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

4. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?
(a) Bees
(b) Hummingbirds
(c) Scientists
(d) Humans

5. The majority of the Earth's surface is covered with __________.
(a) Birds
(b) Land
(c) Trees
(d) Water

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?

2. What is the name for chemicals that mix with other pollutants and substances in the water, producing unidentifiable results?

3. The roadsides are lush with trees, ferns, and ____________.

4. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.

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

(see the answer key)

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