View a FREE sample

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. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?
(a) Epochs.
(b) Turnstiles.
(c) Cascades.
(d) Degradation.

2. What term refers to the moving in of bugs when trees are cut down?
(a) Asphyxiative regeneration.
(b) Acromphromic rebuild.
(c) Anocratic proliferation.
(d) Vector proliferation.

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

4. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?
(a) 34 years.
(b) 67 years.
(c) 58 years.
(d) 23 years.

5. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?
(a) 10-12%.
(b) 3-8%.
(c) 8-10%.
(d) 2-4%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many square miles were incinerated by the Camp Fire in northern California in 2018?

2. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?

3. According to a 2016 study, from 1980-210 what percentage of conflict in the world's ethnically diverse countries began in months stamped by weather disaster/

4. When did James Hansen first testify before Congress about global warming?

5. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 189 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample