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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Insecticides used against insects that feed on __________ have killed many fish in the South.
(a) Tobacco
(b) Cotton
(c) Grain
(d) Corn

2. _____________ is not the only source of chemical contamination in the world.
(a) Nuclear power
(b) Mass spraying
(c) Trash
(d) Acid rain

3. Those who enjoy _________ also lose when the fish population goes down.
(a) Touring the waterways
(b) Scuba diving
(c) Sport fishing
(d) Surfing

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

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

6. What are printed in tiny type and largely ignored by consumers?
(a) Instructions
(b) Package warnings
(c) Ingredient lists
(d) Names of products

7. __________________ is the basis of all life function.
(a) Adenosine
(b) ATP production
(c) Cellular oxidation
(d) Photosynthesis

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

9. Our individual bodies have a kind of _______, just as the larger environment does.
(a) Resistance
(b) Ecology
(c) Endurance
(d) Threshold

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

11. Chemicals that act upon our genes can cause sudden __________, producing new and undesirable changes in subsequent generations.
(a) Mutations
(b) Mitosis
(c) Impulses
(d) Death

12. Most state laws regarding chemical contamination are grossly ___________.
(a) Out numbered
(b) Inadequate
(c) Overmeasured
(d) Enforced

13. What is also destroyed when the target insects are sprayed by chemicals, damaging and changing the ecosystem?
(a) Water sources
(b) Their natural enemies
(c) Humans
(d) Trees

14. The limits the government has established regarding chemical levels in foods are __________.
(a) Meaningless
(b) Unavailable
(c) Low
(d) Effective

15. ______________ do not kill people or birds, although the US government said they did.
(a) Fire ants
(b) Eagles
(c) Gypsy moths
(d) Ladybugs

Short Answer Questions

1. Without functioning ____________, even our organs are useless.

2. ________ are genetically adapting to the chemicals we use to control them.

3. During what war time was the spraying of chemicals made more intense and more widespread?

4. More American children now die from __________ than from any other disease.

5. Some substances can interact with each other in unpredictable ways, increasing their _____________.

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