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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. _______________ has been largely controlled through improved living conditions and sanitation.
(a) Chemical exposure
(b) Infectious disease
(c) Cancer
(d) Population

4. Where do the fish go from #97 do in order to spawn and to perpetuate their kind?
(a) Ponds
(b) Into the ocean
(c) Up the rivers
(d) Into dens

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

6. ________________ are affected because poisoned fish are not a source of food to sell.
(a) Commercial fisheries
(b) Sushi bars
(c) Restaurants
(d) Grocery stores

7. What did the fire any not destroy, even though the US government made claims that it did?
(a) Crops
(b) Buildings
(c) Money
(d) Trees

8. Scientists believe that human __________ is unrealistic.
(a) Control
(b) Change
(c) Chemical warfare
(d) Resistance

9. What are many chemicals sold in that could result in high chemical exposure if dropped by the consumer?
(a) Plastic
(b) Paper
(c) Glass
(d) Metal

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

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

12. The spraying of chemicals became more widespread because of new insecticides and a surplus of ___________.
(a) Workers
(b) POWs
(c) Money
(d) Airplanes

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

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

15. Insects are controlled by limitations on the amount of _________ available to them, a fact often overlooked by humans.
(a) Mates
(b) Food
(c) Air
(d) Disease

Short Answer Questions

1. Chemical residues in _______ are another source of gradual buildup of chemicals in the body.

2. Human life adapts to environment changes ____________.

3. What is the name of the chemical that changes form once it enters the environment, becoming another more deadly chemical?

4. Every cell in the body is involved in the production of ___________.

5. How long is the typical human generation?

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