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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "Surface Waters and Underground Seas".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Throughout earth's history, living things have __________ with their environment but not changed it.
(a) Tinkered
(b) Grown
(c) Interacted
(d) Battled

2. In 1960, in the Klamath/Tule Lake region, agricultural pesticides were collected in the water bodies of a _____________.
(a) Toilet
(b) Wildlife refuge
(c) Swimming pool
(d) Library

3. Who has poisoned the entire environment, according to Carson as she will prove in this book?
(a) Insects
(b) People
(c) Animals
(d) Plants

4. The organic ____________ insecticides like Malathion and parathion are in wide use in 1962, when the book was written.
(a) Phosphorus
(b) Arsenic
(c) Boron
(d) Carbon

5. Because synthetic pesticides are ______, they can easily poison intended and unintended targets.
(a) Widespread
(b) Dangerous
(c) Lethal
(d) Organic

Short Answer Questions

1. There is evidence that chemicals travel via ____________.

2. What is plentiful in the streams, providing good fishing spots since early settler times?

3. What is the toxin which is released through nuclear explosion?

4. What is not usable for drinking, irrigation, or industry?

5. For almost every human being on the planet, synthetic pesticides are present in _______ and probably in bodily tissues from the beginning.

(see the answer key)

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