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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. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. In 2014, a toxic event struck Lake Erie, when fertilizer from farms in Ohio spawned an algae bloom that cut off drinking water for what city?

5. In 1850, the area of Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. How many are left today?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the Mendocino Complex Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?

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. What is the World Bank and when was it formed?

6. Describe the Thomas Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?

7. What is the IPCC?

8. What is the relationship between Syria and climate change, according to the author?

9. What does "person-days" refer to and who coined this term?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the issue of freshwater scarcity. How much water on the earth is fresh? How much of that water is available for consumption? Why is there a water crisis and how could it be addressed?

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 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?

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