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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 major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?

2. According to a 2018 government report, approximately how many people die each year from lacking or contaminated water?

3. What did Donald Trump notoriously toss to members of a crowd during a press conference in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria?

4. Approximately how many square miles were incinerated by the Camp Fire in northern California in 2018?

5. How many signatories are there on the Paris climate accords (as of the time of the book's publication)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is "wet-bulb temperature"?

6. What is atmospheric particulate matter?

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

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

9. In "Drowning," the author cites a 2018 study on the melt rate of the Antarctic ice sheet. What did this study show?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the critical response to The Uninhabitable Earth. What criticism has come from the climate change community? What criticism has come from outside that community? Why is this book compared to Silent Spring?

Essay Topic 2

What is global warming? What causes it? What effects does it have on the environment around us? How can we slow global warming?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the threat of prehistoric plagues as a result of global warming. Where are these prehistoric plagues hidden? How have they been discovered? What threats do they present in the next century?

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