Rachel Carson
Pesticides
Guess that Word!
Government
Environmental and Social Problems
100
When was Silent Spring published?
What is 1962
100
Carson breaks up pesticides into two types of chemicals. What are they?
What is insecticides and herbicides
100
A white, crystalline chlorinated hydrocarbon used as an insecticide
What is DDT
100
Carson worked for what Federal agency?
What is USFWS
200
The production of synthetic chemicals grew after which war?
What is WWII
200
What president ordered the President's Science Advisory Committee to review Silent Spring?
Who is John F. Kennedy
300
Carson calls pesticides the "elixirs of _____"
What is death
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