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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was infected with chemicals that led to the death of so many robins?
(a) Air
(b) Water
(c) Earthworms
(d) Nest building material

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

4. There is a disagreement among scientists about how much _______ can be safely stored in the body.
(a) Water
(b) DDT
(c) Fat
(d) Arsenic

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

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

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

8. What did the birds provide naturally that made their deaths all the more significant?
(a) Pest control
(b) Eggs
(c) Songs
(d) Migration patterns

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

10. Without the Earth's ________, there could be no plants.
(a) Water
(b) Human help
(c) Soil
(d) Light

11. Wildlife biologists and forestry experts __________ the mass killings of so much life.
(a) Assist in
(b) Are guilty of
(c) Support
(d) Decry

12. Only _________ have gained the ability to reserve the roles and actually change the environment they live in.
(a) Plants
(b) Insects
(c) Animals
(d) Human beings

13. What was applied to a large area of Illinois over an 8 year period in order to try to control the Japanese Beetle?
(a) ALdrin
(b) Dieldrin
(c) Bitter orange
(d) DDT

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Every human being now has contact with _________ every moment of his life - even from conception.

3. Humans hold a narrow view of _________, using them when they are immediately useful only.

4. What is the name of the naturally occurring mineral that is toxic to humans and most creatures but is still used as a pesticide?

5. In the modern world, life does not have the luxury of ________.

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