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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. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?
2. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?
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 gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?
5. What does CCS stand for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the UNFCCC? When was it adopted?
2. How is water demand from the global food system, industry, and energy projected to increase over the next three decades?
3. How is the freshwater that is available used by civilization (i.e.: What percentages are devoted to different uses)?
4. Describe the Mendocino Complex Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?
5. Describe the "unprecedented extreme weather" of 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere (95).
6. Describe the extreme weather events of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere.
7. What is "wet-bulb temperature"?
8. How many prior mass extinctions has the earth experienced? What caused them?
9. What is the Kyoto Protocol? When was it signed?
10. What is carbon dioxide?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the issue of population in regard to climate change. What is the global population today? How much has it grown in the past century? How much is it projected to grow in the next century? How will this affect global warming?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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