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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. There is evidence that chemicals travel via ____________.
(a) Groundwater
(b) The air
(c) Crops
(d) Animals

2. What is not produced as a result of not having the pollination process continue?
(a) Leaves
(b) Fruit
(c) Air
(d) Stones

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This kind of vegetable absorbs huge levels of poisons, which would have harmed humans if they had eaten the produce.

2. Who has poisoned the entire environment, according to Carson as she will prove in this book?

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

4. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?

5. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.

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