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

2. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.
(a) Food chain
(b) Packaged foods
(c) Air
(d) Exhaust fumes

3. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?
(a) Changing leaves
(b) Waves
(c) Fish population
(d) Migratory birds

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

5. Continued use of pesticides could very well damage soil ___________.
(a) Beyond repair
(b) Over time
(c) In some areas
(d) Illegally

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.

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

3. Who was intended to benefit from the removal of sagebrush from the American West?

4. The campaign in the American West to replace _______ with grass is one example of man's arrogant approach to plants.

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

(see the answer key)

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