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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are many chemicals sold in that could result in high chemical exposure if dropped by the consumer?
(a) Plastic
(b) Glass
(c) Metal
(d) Paper

2. The liver can become damaged by the poisons it filters, causing it to become ___________ effective.
(a) Much more
(b) Less
(c) Generally
(d) More

3. The ____________ systems of all creatures are adversely affected by DDT and other chemicals, so that this drastic disruption of the unversal currency of life affects the capacity of all living things.
(a) Nervous
(b) Reproductive
(c) Muscular
(d) Circulatory

4. Because all foods contain chemicals, even in small doses, the human exposure is enormous in the __________.
(a) World
(b) Aggregate
(c) Pantry
(d) Restaurants

5. Fire ants' mounds actually serve to ________ the soil, which is a good thing.
(a) Water
(b) Protect
(c) Preserve
(d) Aerate

6. Our chemical attacks on insects have weakened entire ___________.
(a) Countries
(b) Governments
(c) Cities
(d) Ecosystems

7. ____________ alone have the ability to create carcinogens, which cause cancer.
(a) Human beings
(b) Insects
(c) Plants
(d) Animals

8. During what war time was the spraying of chemicals made more intense and more widespread?
(a) Vietnam
(b) WWI
(c) Civil War
(d) WWII

9. Without functioning ____________, even our organs are useless.
(a) Lungs
(b) Blood streams
(c) Cells
(d) Brain activity

10. What kind of creature plays a vital role as a source for food, as well as being an aerator, a scavenger, and a source of bait?
(a) Smelt
(b) Fiddler crab
(c) Earth worm
(d) Round worm

11. Some substances can interact with each other in unpredictable ways, increasing their _____________.
(a) Strength
(b) Safety
(c) Effectiveness
(d) Toxicity

12. Human life adapts to environment changes ____________.
(a) Extremely slowly
(b) Quickly
(c) Once in a while
(d) When it takes action

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

14. What organ works to filter out the chemicals that enter the human body?
(a) Stomach
(b) Liver
(c) Lungs
(d) Gallbladder

15. The fish may die some time after spraying as the toxins can be released from ____________.
(a) Plants
(b) Water
(c) Fat stores
(d) Rocks

Short Answer Questions

1. Scientists believe that human __________ is unrealistic.

2. What is also destroyed when the target insects are sprayed by chemicals, damaging and changing the ecosystem?

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

4. Our individual bodies have a kind of _______, just as the larger environment does.

5. Radiation and arsenic are naturally occurring substances that cause _________.

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