Silent Spring Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 101 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Silent Spring Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 101 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "Earth's Green Mantle".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are numerous in both kind and in sheer quantity according to Carson in the opening of the book?
(a) Cats
(b) Lakes
(c) Pebbles
(d) Birds

2. Humans __________ plants when an an immediate use is not obvious for a plant.
(a) Eat
(b) Destroy
(c) Move
(d) Test

3. What is the toxin which is released through nuclear explosion?
(a) Arsenic
(b) Radiation
(c) Soot
(d) Gamma rays

4. There is evidence that chemicals travel via ____________.
(a) Crops
(b) The air
(c) Groundwater
(d) Animals

5. Without plants, there could be no _________ of any kind.
(a) Food
(b) Animals
(c) Pollution
(d) Greenery

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not one of the animal species which are bolstered by the inclusion of sagebrush in the West?

2. The town Carson describes is one where townsfolk and farmers and wildlife all live in _____________.

3. Plants and animals specifically ________ to live in whatever their environments are.

4. Not only do chemicals hurt the soil, but they also ____________ the soil for years.

5. DDT is passed long through the ___________ during the course of nearly everyone's life.

(see the answer key)

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