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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,000.

2. Who wrote The Water Will Come?
(a) Jeff Goodell.
(b) Irakli Loladze.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

3. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?
(a) 320,000.
(b) 460,000.
(c) 640,000.
(d) 253,000.

4. Who proposed the term "Half-Earth" (20)?
(a) Gernot Wagner.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

5. The area referred to as America's "tornado alley" has moved how many miles in just 30 years, according to the author in "Disasters No Longer Natural"?
(a) 300.
(b) 500.
(c) 200.
(d) 400.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many natural disasters hit the Philippines between 2006 and 2013?

2. When was the Paris Agreement ratified?

3. How many people were killed during the Indian summer of 1998?

4. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?

5. Of the 71% of the planet that is covered in water, approximately what percentage is fresh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discovery did Irakli Loladze make regarding human nutrition and climate change?

2. How did Hurricane Harvey impact Houston environmentally?

3. How is water demand from the global food system, industry, and energy projected to increase over the next three decades?

4. What do CCS and BECCS refer to?

5. How does the author describe the distribution of freshwater in "Freshwater Drain"?

6. What is atmospheric particulate matter?

7. What is carbon dioxide?

8. What is the IPCC?

9. How many prior mass extinctions has the earth experienced? What caused them?

10. How have the planet's heat waves changed since 1980?

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