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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 contaminated with DDT so that it ends up affecting a human consumer of eggs?
(a) Hay in the barn
(b) Water
(c) Farmers
(d) Chicken feed

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

3. What is the toxin which is released through nuclear explosion?
(a) Arsenic
(b) Gamma rays
(c) Soot
(d) Radiation

4. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?
(a) Sage grouse
(b) Red tailed hawk
(c) Mule deer
(d) Pronghorn antelope

5. What is the name for chemicals that mix with other pollutants and substances in the water, producing unidentifiable results?
(a) Gunk
(b) Muck
(c) Sludge
(d) Trep

Short Answer Questions

1. The roadsides are lush with trees, ferns, and ____________.

2. In ___________ in the 1950s, the chemical that appeared in the water had actually been created spontaneously by the interaction of other chemicals present.

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

4. Individual sensitivity to the various toxic substances is extremely ___________.

5. ___________ health problems used to be caused by diseases like smallpox, cholera, and the plague.

(see the answer key)

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