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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Life is able to adapt to environmental change over _____________, according to Carson.
(a) Millennia
(b) A decade
(c) A few months
(d) A year

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

3. What becomes more numerous when the bird population goes down?
(a) Earthworms
(b) Tree leaves
(c) Insects
(d) Animals

4. Every human being now has contact with _________ every moment of his life - even from conception.
(a) Pests
(b) Nature
(c) Insects
(d) Dangerous chemicals

5. What are so popular that tourists come to see them every year?
(a) Waves
(b) Changing leaves
(c) Fish population
(d) Migratory birds

6. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.
(a) Time
(b) Control
(c) Research
(d) Money

7. In ___________ in the 1950s, the chemical that appeared in the water had actually been created spontaneously by the interaction of other chemicals present.
(a) California
(b) Florida
(c) Maine
(d) Colorado

8. What is the name of the naturally occurring mineral that is toxic to humans and most creatures but is still used as a pesticide?
(a) Boron
(b) Lead
(c) Arsenic
(d) Carbon

9. The population of Japanese Beetles in sprayed areas is ______________ .
(a) Unchanged
(b) Larger than ever
(c) Gone
(d) Going down

10. Toxic substances work to stop the body's natural functions; some of them may cause __________ to begin growing.
(a) Resistance
(b) Cancer cells
(c) Arms
(d) Poisonous reactions

11. _____________ must discern for themselves who is telling the truth.
(a) Scientists
(b) Citizens
(c) Media
(d) Researchers

12. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.
(a) Organic
(b) Lethal
(c) Widespread
(d) Dangerous

13. _____________ hurts the soil on a virtually permanent basis, according to Carson.
(a) Corn crops
(b) Wild orange oil
(c) DDT
(d) Arsenic

14. DDT seems to be able to be stored in the __________ tissues of the body.
(a) Outer
(b) Fatty
(c) Muscle
(d) Lean

15. Repeated spraying lead to poisoned environments in which not only are resident creatures killed, but also those that _________ there.
(a) Are near to
(b) Migrate
(c) Were born
(d) Visiting

Short Answer Questions

1. Attempts to control a particular ________ in Clear Lake, California resulted in massive bird death.

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

3. What is used to pollinate the plants and to pollinate the trees?

4. Continued use of pesticides could very well damage soil ___________.

5. Spring begins in the United States with the once-familiar ___________.

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