Pesticide Mini Quiz

Which best describes the impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

• Raised public knowledge about air pollutants and factory emissions

• One of the first works to deal with climate change and greenhouse gases

• Raised public knowledge about pesticides and herbicides, helped lead to EPA and environmental regulations

• The books was only about DDT

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DDT

• Causes acute but not chronic conditions

• Accumulates in the fatty tissues of the body over time

• Impacts fish but not birds or humans

• Is still the primary pesticide used in the USA

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When certain pollutants or pesticides increase as you move up a food chain, this is known as _____

• Bioaccumulation

• Biomagnification

• Persistent Organic Pollutants

• Integrated Pest Management

Which is linked to eutrophication? (Note: These answer choices are different things. Mixing them up on the test will result in wrong answers.)

• Pesticides

• Herbicides

• Fertilizers

• All of the above

What is the advantage to making a crop resistant to pests through genetic modification?

• Fewer pesticides need to be introduced to the environment

• The pests will never adapt to be able to damage the plant again

• The genetic diversity of the ecosystem will increase

• This will not impact the crop or the environment in any significant way

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In integrated pest management

• Only biological pest control methods are used

• Chemical methods are forbidden

• A variety of methods are used, with chemical methods being used as a last resort

• Only crop rotation and chemical methods are used

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