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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. When was the Paris Agreement ratified?
2. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is carbon dioxide?
2. How does the author describe the distribution of freshwater in "Freshwater Drain"?
3. How do wildfires affect greenhouse gas emissions?
4. Why is the idea of shifting agriculture northward as the planet warms not a reasonable goal, based on the author's assertions in "Hunger"?
5. Why is wildfire different than other natural disasters in terms of American perceptions?
6. What is "coral bleaching" and why is it important?
7. How is "Anthropocene" defined?
8. What does the author project will happen in terms of wildfire growth by 2050?
9. How would the United States change at six degrees Celsius of global warming, according to the author in "Heat Death"?
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 agriculture as it relates to climate change. How has agriculture in the U.S. and other countries changed as a result of global warming in the past century? How is it expected to change in the future? What are some of the biggest concerns regarding agriculture in a warming ecosystem?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss the correlations between climate change and conflict. What international conflicts or civil wars have emerged in the past century due to climate change? What have been the results of those conflicts? What is projected for the future regarding global warming and conflict?
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