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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 "And No Birds Sing".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. There is a disagreement among scientists about how much _______ can be safely stored in the body.
(a) DDT
(b) Fat
(c) Water
(d) Arsenic

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

5. Large-scale, single-crop farming eliminates the _______________ that provided built in control of pests.
(a) Possibility
(b) Biodiversity
(c) Regulation
(d) Chemicals

Short Answer Questions

1. Continued use of pesticides could very well damage soil ___________.

2. Only _________ have gained the ability to reserve the roles and actually change the environment they live in.

3. In many cases, the spraying is killing wildflowers which attract ___________.

4. Chemical wielding __________ overlook the terrible flaws in their programs of blanket spraying.

5. In England, the treatment of _______ with chemicals resulted in widespread bird deaths.

(see the answer key)

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