The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

David Wallace-Wells
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

David Wallace-Wells
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Climate Kaleidoscope, "Storytelling" - "The Church of Technology".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2013.

2. If the Earth's temperature rose 6 degrees Celsius what region would suffer more from heat than anywhere in the world today?
(a) The U.S. west of the Rockies.
(b) The U.S. east of the Rockies.
(c) The Pacific Northwest.
(d) The U.S. west of the Cascades.

3. A research team led by Ethan Coffel calculated in 2017 that the number of days warmer than what were once the warmest days of the year could grow by a factor of what by 2080?
(a) 100.
(b) 25.
(c) 50.
(d) 75.

4. Who wrote in her book Motherhood, "The egoism of child-bearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country" (164)?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) E. O. Wilson.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Sheila Heti.

5. What lake supplies much of Las Vegas's water?
(a) Lake Berryessa.
(b) Lake Mead.
(c) Lake Oroville.
(d) Lake Shasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?

2. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?

3. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?

4. In 2018, scientists revived a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for approximately how many years?

5. What is the population of Delhi (as of 2018)?

(see the answer key)

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