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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were killed around the world by inland flooding between 1995 and 2015?

2. Globally, about what percentage of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture?

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

4. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?

5. Who wrote The Population Bomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author project will happen in terms of wildfire growth by 2050?

2. How does the author describe the distribution of freshwater in "Freshwater Drain"?

3. How is "Anthropocene" defined?

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

5. What discovery did Irakli Loladze make regarding human nutrition and climate change?

6. What is a "hyperobject"?

7. How is the air quality index quantified? What does it relate?

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

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

10. How did Hurricane Harvey impact Houston environmentally?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of the Neolithic Revolution in terms of climate change. How did the adjustment to an agrarian system affect culture and civilization? How did it affect the planet? Why do some individuals believe that the agrarian transition was a negative event?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the correlations between technology and climate change. In what ways might technology "save us" (202)? What stands in the way of technology helping prevent accelerated global warming? What might advances mean for the world?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impacts of global warming region-by-region if the earth's temperature raises by two degrees Celsius. How would this impact coastal areas? How would inland areas be affected? What regions would be impacted the worst?

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