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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. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?
(a) 16%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 34%.

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

3. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 3 million.

4. When was the country of Pakistan formed?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1962.

5. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 200 million.
(c) 700 million.
(d) 600 million.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How would the United States change at six degrees Celsius of global warming, according to the author in "Heat Death"?

2. What is the basic rule of thumb when looking at climate change and cereal grains, according to the author in "Hunger"?

3. Describe the extreme weather events of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere.

4. Who was Wallace Smith Broecker and why does the author reference him in Part I: Cascades?

5. What does the author say about methane release in relation to melting ice sheets in "Drowning"?

6. What does the United Nations project for food supply and demand in 2050?

7. Why is the idea of shifting agriculture northward as the planet warms not a reasonable goal, based on the author's assertions in "Hunger"?

8. How many prior mass extinctions has the earth experienced? What caused them?

9. How did Hurricane Harvey impact Houston environmentally?

10. What is the IPCC?

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