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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many attempts to control ___________ have results in massive fish kills.
(a) Spiders
(b) Fire ants
(c) Army ants
(d) Brown ants

2. What kind of disease can fleas carry and then transmit to humans as a result of a bite?
(a) Plague
(b) Yellow fever
(c) Malaria
(d) Typhus

3. For many thousands of years, ___________ have returned from the Atlantic each year.
(a) Salmon
(b) Trout
(c) Mackerel
(d) Eels

4. More American children now die from __________ than from any other disease.
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Influenza
(c) Sepsis
(d) Cancer

5. There has been a huge increase in the incidence of ___________ and in our awareness of it in fewer than 200 years.
(a) Virus
(b) Pneumonia
(c) Malignancy
(d) Influenza

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of energy which is produced at every stage of the mitochondrial process?

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

3. The spraying of chemicals became more widespread because of new insecticides and a surplus of ___________.

4. All foods, according to Carson, contain some level of such poisonous chemicals as __________.

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

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