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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 deaths in China were attributed to smog in 2013?
2. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?
3. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
4. 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?
5. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the air quality index quantified? What does it relate?
2. What is the Kyoto Protocol? When was it signed?
3. What is the basic rule of thumb when looking at climate change and cereal grains, according to the author in "Hunger"?
4. How is "Anthropocene" defined?
5. What do CCS and BECCS refer to?
6. How many prior mass extinctions has the earth experienced? What caused them?
7. What is the relationship between Syria and climate change, according to the author?
8. What is the UNFCCC? When was it adopted?
9. Why is wildfire different than other natural disasters in terms of American perceptions?
10. How is the freshwater that is available used by civilization (i.e.: What percentages are devoted to different uses)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the Paris Agreement? What countries have signed on with the Paris Agreement? What is the goal of the agreement? How have the countries involved changed to account for their signing to the agreement?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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