And no Birds Sing

Vocab

By Rachel Carsen in 1962 from the book Silent Spring

Shaped the environmental movement of the 1960's

This book helped create the Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA)

Helped eagles and Peregrine Falcons come back from extinction.

Helped bring about the ban on DDT a dangerous pesticide.

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And No Birds Sing Vocab

ardent p. 186

irrevocable p. 186

insidiously p. 187

ornithologists p. 187

tenacious p. 193

succumb p.194

sterility p. 194

fledgling p. 195

multitudinous p. 196

obliteration (Not in the back of book) p. 187

ecology (Not in the back of book)

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