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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "One in Every Four".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of control is actually more effective and less costly than mass spraying?
(a) Local
(b) Natural
(c) Non-control
(d) Rural

3. What did the fire any not destroy, even though the US government made claims that it did?
(a) Trees
(b) Money
(c) Crops
(d) Buildings

4. There has been a huge increase in the incidence of ___________ and in our awareness of it in fewer than 200 years.
(a) Influenza
(b) Malignancy
(c) Virus
(d) Pneumonia

5. Who was intended to benefit from the removal of sagebrush from the American West?
(a) Other plant species
(b) Lizards
(c) Livestock
(d) Birds

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for chemicals that mix with other pollutants and substances in the water, producing unidentifiable results?

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

3. The town Carson describes is one where townsfolk and farmers and wildlife all live in _____________.

4. ____________ can eliminate only the unwanted plants and give the beneficial plants a chance to thrive.

5. Where do the fish go from #97 do in order to spawn and to perpetuate their kind?

(see the answer key)

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