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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The area referred to as America's "tornado alley" has moved how many miles in just 30 years, according to the author in "Disasters No Longer Natural"?
(a) 500.
(b) 400.
(c) 300.
(d) 200.

2. How much money in damages did Typhoon Mangkhut wreak on the Philippines and Hong Kong in 2018?
(a) $50 million.
(b) $1 billion.
(c) $500,000.
(d) $5 million.

3. In 2014, a toxic event struck Lake Erie, when fertilizer from farms in Ohio spawned an algae bloom that cut off drinking water for what city?
(a) Toledo.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Hamilton.

4. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 22.
(c) 16.
(d) 34.

5. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Timothy Morton.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

6. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1945.

7. What does CCS stand for?
(a) Carbon capture and storage.
(b) Carbon capture and study.
(c) Climate control standards.
(d) Climate change standards.

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

9. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?
(a) E. O. Wilson.
(b) Irakli Loladze.
(c) William Vollmann.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

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

11. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?
(a) Weaverville.
(b) Douglas City.
(c) Montague.
(d) Paradise.

12. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 8%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 3%.
(d) 15%.

13. What was the population of New Orleans in 2005 (prior to Katrina)?
(a) 480,000.
(b) 700,000.
(c) 630,000.
(d) 530,000.

14. What does NOAA stand for?
(a) National Organization of American Atmosphere.
(b) National Organization for Aviation and Administration.
(c) Nautical Organization of Air and Aviation.
(d) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

15. 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) 2.3
(b) 5.2.
(c) 4.5.
(d) 4.8.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres did the Thomas Fire grow in one day in 2017?

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

3. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?

4. When did Roger Revelle die?

5. How many pounds of grain does it take to produce a single pound of hamburger meat?

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