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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "The Human Price".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not usable for drinking, irrigation, or industry?
(a) Lake water
(b) Stream water
(c) Seawater
(d) Frozen water

2. Where was the population of Japanese Beetles effectively controlled?
(a) West
(b) South
(c) North
(d) East

3. Foods derived from and containing __________ contain the largest amounts of chemicals.
(a) Sugar
(b) Animal fats
(c) Dairy
(d) Water

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

5. Plants growing in contaminated soil may carry the contaminants into their _____________.
(a) Neighbor plants
(b) DNA
(c) Tissues
(d) Chlorophyll

Short Answer Questions

1. For many thousands of years, ___________ have returned from the Atlantic each year.

2. What is contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?

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

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

5. Large areas of Michigan were sprayed in 1959 in order to try to control what insect?

(see the answer key)

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