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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. Without plants, there could be no _________ of any kind.
(a) Animals
(b) Pollution
(c) Food
(d) Greenery

2. Humans __________ plants when an an immediate use is not obvious for a plant.
(a) Eat
(b) Test
(c) Destroy
(d) Move

3. One changed __________ can affect the entire body system.
(a) Animal
(b) Plant
(c) Organ
(d) Molecule

4. Which state has abandoned broad eradication in favor of the control in #117?
(a) Florida
(b) Ohio
(c) Maine
(d) California

5. What was one of the chemicals used in the massive spraying in #78?
(a) DDT
(b) Bitter orange
(c) Melatonin
(d) Aldrin

Short Answer Questions

1. The fish may die some time after spraying as the toxins can be released from ____________.

2. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?

3. What is the cellular structure that contains enzymes which accomplish the work of energy production?

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

5. What kind of control is actually more effective and less costly than mass spraying?

(see the answer key)

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