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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. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 2/3.

2. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?
(a) 30%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 25%.

3. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?
(a) Exxon.
(b) Texaco.
(c) DuPont.
(d) Chevron.

4. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/7.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/10.
(d) 1/5.

5. What is the current population of Jakarta (as of 2018)?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 8 million.
(d) 6 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?

2. According to the author, the concrete and asphalt of cities absorb so much heat during the day that when it is released at night, it can raise the local temperature as much as how many degrees Fahrenheit?

3. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?

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

5. When did Roger Revelle die?

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