Rachel Carlson
Rachel Carlson was born in:
a. 1907
b. 1962
c. 1962
c. 1962
What type of insect started Edward Wilson's career as a scientist?
ants
Tyrone B. Hayes was born in...
a. 1952
b. 2000
c. 1967
c. 1967
Wangari was born in...
Kenya, Africa
What did she study in college?
a. Calculus
b. Chemistry
c. Marine Biology
c. Marine Biology
When Edward was only 13 years old, he discovered the first_________ in the United States.
a. honey bees
b. daddy long legs
c. fire ants
c. fire ants
Tyrone is a biology professor at University of California at Berkeley and studies...
frogs
Unlike most women in her country, she was able to go to...
college
Rachel noticed animals were dying and figured out the cause was...
pesticides
What did Edward Wilson study at the University of Alabama and Harvard?
a. Chemistry
b. Biology
c. Botany
b. Biology
Tyrone found that both female and male frogs living in the wild were...
making eggs
Wangari was the first woman from eastern Africa to receive a...
doctorate degree
Rachel Carlson was horrified that pesticides were killing not only insects, but all sorts of animals and wrote a book called...
Silent Spring
Edward Wilson wrote a book about how ants and other animals communicate using chemicals called...
a. echo location
b. pheromones
c. DDT
b. pheromones
Hayes studied the frogs' environment and found small amounts of what in the water?
an herbicide - a chemical used to kill plants
In 1977, Maathai founded a group called the Green belt Movement. What does this group do?
Their main activity is planting trees to replace those cut down for firewood.
What happened as a result of her book?
DDT (a pesticide) was banned in 1972.
Wilson wrote a book called The Diversity of Life. He wrote that human activities were destroying organisms worldwide. In this book he predicted something. What was it?
That millions of kinds of plants and animals would become extinct by the middle of the 21st century.
The companies that make the herbicide...
a. decided to stop producing it
b. said they were sorry and cleaned up the water
c. challenged Hayes' research
c. challenged Hayes' research
Even though people tried to stop her, Maathai did what was right for the environment and the people of Kenya and received the ____________ for her many years of promoting peace and good living conditions in Africa.
Nobel Peace Prize