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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Plagues of Warming" - "Systems".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed around the world by inland flooding between 1995 and 2015?
(a) 157,000.
(b) 234,000.
(c) 142,000.
(d) 633,000.

2. How many acres did the Thomas Fire grow in one day in 2017?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 25,000.

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

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

5. 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) 4 times faster.
(b) 10 times faster.
(c) 20 times faster.
(d) 7 times faster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?

2. 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?

3. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?

4. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

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

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