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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the form of energy which is produced at every stage of the mitochondrial process?
(a) ATP
(b) ADP
(c) DNA
(d) ARP

4. What did farm animals stop doing as a result of the fire any eradication program?
(a) Eating
(b) Walking
(c) Stop producing healthy young
(d) Gaining weight

5. ___________ health problems used to be caused by diseases like smallpox, cholera, and the plague.
(a) Upper class
(b) Rural
(c) Poverty
(d) Public

6. 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) Round worm
(b) Smelt
(c) Earth worm
(d) Fiddler crab

7. What can the chemical DDT cause in fish?
(a) Color changes
(b) Starvation
(c) Blindness
(d) Depression

8. A chemically weakened environment opens the door to explosive insect ____________.
(a) Death
(b) Extinction
(c) Waste buildup
(d) Repopulation

9. What do some insects carry that makes their termination so important in today's times?
(a) Venom
(b) Mutations
(c) Cancer
(d) Deadly diseases

10. Radiation and arsenic are naturally occurring substances that cause _________.
(a) Fatigue
(b) Protection
(c) Fertilization
(d) Cancer

11. _______________ can be much more effective at controlling budworm.
(a) Other chemicals
(b) Natural parasites
(c) Organic herbs
(d) Targeted spraying

12. One changed __________ can affect the entire body system.
(a) Organ
(b) Plant
(c) Animal
(d) Molecule

13. 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) Circulatory
(b) Reproductive
(c) Muscular
(d) Nervous

14. What kinds of insects are becoming resistant to the chemical sprayings?
(a) Weaker
(b) All
(c) None
(d) Stronger

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ provides the best ways to control insects, according to Carson.

2. Individual sensitivity to the various toxic substances is extremely ___________.

3. ____________ and animals were sprayed directly during the campaign against the gypsy moths.

4. ______________ is the basic process of life creation for everything from amoebae to humans.

5. Human life adapts to environment changes ____________.

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