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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many people were killed during the Russian heat wave of 2010?
(a) 95,000.
(b) 70,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 55,000.
2. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?
(a) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
(b) Michel Terner.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Deodoro da Fonseca.
3. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1994.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1992.
4. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?
(a) 2017.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2003.
5. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much in damages did Hurricane Florence wreak on North Carolina in 2018?
2. If the Earth's temperature rose 6 degrees Celsius what region would suffer more from heat than anywhere in the world today?
3. Globally, deforestation accounts for about what percentage of carbon emissions?
4. Globally, about what percentage of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture?
5. What term refers to the moving in of bugs when trees are cut down?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the United Nations project for food supply and demand in 2050?
2. What is the IPCC?
3. What discovery did Irakli Loladze make regarding human nutrition and climate change?
4. Describe the Camp Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?
5. How many prior mass extinctions has the earth experienced? What caused them?
6. In "Drowning," the author cites a 2018 study on the melt rate of the Antarctic ice sheet. What did this study show?
7. How is water demand from the global food system, industry, and energy projected to increase over the next three decades?
8. What is carbon dioxide?
9. What do CCS and BECCS refer to?
10. How did Hurricane Harvey impact Houston environmentally?
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