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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. Chemicals can travel down ___________ or in underground aquifers to the bodies of water.
(a) Streets
(b) Mountains
(c) Watersheds
(d) Sewers

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

3. What happens to the people in the beginning description which puzzles doctors?
(a) They begin to hurt each other
(b) They have green spots on their faces
(c) They become ill
(d) They disappear

4. Due to pollution in its environment, this kind of bird has suffered from extensive population reduction and sterility issues.
(a) Hawk
(b) Hummingbird
(c) Buzzard
(d) Eagle

5. If a robin did not die, it often suffered from __________ as a result of being exposed to DDT.
(a) Blindness
(b) Cancer
(c) Sterility
(d) Deafness

Short Answer Questions

1. What are printed in tiny type and largely ignored by consumers?

2. Insecticides used against insects that feed on __________ have killed many fish in the South.

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

4. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."

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

(see the answer key)

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