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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Heat Death" - "Drowning".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Air conditioners and fans account for what percentage of global electricity consumption currently, according to the author in "Heat Death"?
(a) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 15%.

2. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?
(a) Ellicott City.
(b) Montague.
(c) Warren.
(d) Wilson.

3. How many major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?
(a) 164.
(b) 354.
(c) 235.
(d) 634.

4. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1994.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1999.

5. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) Microplastics.
(b) Global warming.
(c) Greenhouse gas.
(d) Climate change.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Norman Borlaug born?

2. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?

3. Approximately how many barrels of oil are burned each day in the summer in Saudi Arabia, mostly to power the nation's air-conditioning?

4. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?

5. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?

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