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

2. Chemicals can travel down ___________ or in underground aquifers to the bodies of water.
(a) Sewers
(b) Streets
(c) Mountains
(d) Watersheds

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

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

5. Without plants, there could be no _________ of any kind.
(a) Pollution
(b) Animals
(c) Greenery
(d) Food

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Attempts to control a particular ________ in Clear Lake, California resulted in massive bird death.

4. What group of substances includes insecticides and pesticides?

5. Since the 1940s, more than 200 chemicals have been created for the purpose of _____________.

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