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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 "Nature Fights Back".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The majority of the Earth's surface is covered with __________.
(a) Land
(b) Water
(c) Trees
(d) Birds

3. The __________ system is susceptible to damage by toxins like chlorinated hydrocarbons and organic phosphates.
(a) Nervous
(b) Muscular
(c) Renal
(d) Circulatory

4. What kind of control is actually more effective and less costly than mass spraying?
(a) Natural
(b) Rural
(c) Local
(d) Non-control

5. Our __________ carry thousands of years of adaptation and evolution to us.
(a) Families
(b) Genes
(c) Brains
(d) Skin cells

Short Answer Questions

1. What are printed in tiny type and largely ignored by consumers?

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

3. ___________ health problems used to be caused by diseases like smallpox, cholera, and the plague.

4. Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the smallest organisms of Earth and they live in the ________.

5. The title of this chapter comes from Jean Rostand: "The obligation to endure gives us the right to ___________."

(see the answer key)

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