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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "Earth's Green Mantle".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because animals are affected by chemicals, scientists are having a hard time finding uncontaminated animals to serve as _________ in experiments.
(a) Helpers
(b) Subjects
(c) Controls
(d) Examples

2. The roadsides are lush with trees, ferns, and ____________.
(a) Stones
(b) Birds
(c) Wildflowers
(d) Soil

3. How was the large population of sagebrush destroyed in the West?
(a) Physical removal
(b) Suffocation
(c) Sprayings
(d) Burning

4. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.
(a) Interacted
(b) Tinkered
(c) Grown
(d) Battled

5. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?
(a) Lakes
(b) Pebbles
(c) Birds
(d) Cats

Short Answer Questions

1. Humans hold a narrow view of _________, using them when they are immediately useful only.

2. The town Carson describes _________ actually exist.

3. The majority of the Earth's surface is covered with __________.

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

5. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?

(see the answer key)

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