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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. Who has poisoned the entire environment, according to Carson as she will prove in this book?
(a) People
(b) Animals
(c) Insects
(d) Plants

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

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

4. Herbicides can change the _________ of plants, making toxic plants more appealing to animals.
(a) Taste
(b) Color
(c) Appearance
(d) Metabolism

5. ____________ can eliminate only the unwanted plants and give the beneficial plants a chance to thrive.
(a) Selective spraying
(b) Herbicides
(c) Targeted extermination
(d) Dangerous chemicals

Short Answer Questions

1. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.

2. Radiation used to be limited to that which occurred naturally - in rocks, cosmic rays, and __________.

3. What lingers on the rooftops in Carson's description of the demise of the environment?

4. Because animals are affected by chemicals, scientists are having a hard time finding uncontaminated animals to serve as _________ in experiments.

5. All of the Earth's watersystems are _____________, so contamination of a part is contamination of the whole.

(see the answer key)

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