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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. Who proposed the term "Half-Earth" (20)?
(a) E. O. Wilson.
(b) Irakli Loladze.
(c) Gernot Wagner.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

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

3. When was Norman Borlaug born?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1944.

4. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?
(a) Vectorology.
(b) Endography.
(c) Phylology.
(d) Teleology.

5. When was the Kyoto Protocol signed?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2013.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many deaths in China were attributed to smog in 2013?

2. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?

3. 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?

4. According to the author in "Hunger," undernourishment in the world's developing countries has dropped from over 30% in 1970 to what percentage today?

5. What term refers to the moving in of bugs when trees are cut down?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is "Anthropocene" defined?

2. What is the World Bank and when was it formed?

3. Describe the Camp Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?

4. Describe the Mendocino Complex Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?

5. What is "wet-bulb temperature"?

6. What is the UNFCCC? When was it adopted?

7. What impacts does the author describe in Part I: Cascades if the global temperature rises 3.2 degrees Celsius, as projected by the IPCC?

8. What is "coral bleaching" and why is it important?

9. What is carbon dioxide?

10. Who wrote Silent Spring and what is the subject of this book?

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