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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Cascades.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?
(a) A thing that is uncertain.
(b) A thing that can be computed numerically.
(c) A think that is unlikely.
(d) A thing seen as comparable to another.

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

3. The rate at which humankind is adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is how many times faster than any point in human history before the beginning of industrialization?
(a) 20 times faster.
(b) 4 times faster.
(c) 10 times faster.
(d) 7 times faster.

4. 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?
(a) 4.5.
(b) 4.8.
(c) 2.3
(d) 5.2.

5. What does the IPCC refer to?
(a) Imperial Protocol of Climate Change.
(b) International Protocol for Climate Change.
(c) International Panel on Climate Change.
(d) International Participation in Climate Correction.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many mass extinctions has the earth experienced prior to the one we are living through now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

2. What month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?

3. How many climate refugees does the U.N. project there will be by 2050?

4. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

5. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?

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