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

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

3. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.
(a) The placenta
(b) Powdered formula
(c) Water
(d) Mother's milk

4. DDT seems to be able to be stored in the __________ tissues of the body.
(a) Fatty
(b) Muscle
(c) Lean
(d) Outer

5. The town Carson describes _________ actually exist.
(a) Will
(b) Does
(c) Does not
(d) Can

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 contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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