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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 Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?
2. In 2017, Solomon Hsiang and Trevor Houser calculated that Hurricane Maria could take how long for the economy of the island to return to even the level it enjoyed just before the storm?
3. In 2016, a boy was killed and 20 people were infected by anthrax that was released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of what animal?
4. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?
5. Who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is UNICEF?
2. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
3. When did the Black Death occur and what was its fallout?
4. Why is the narrative of climate change difficult to translate to film?
5. What is Lyme disease and how many are affected by it yearly?
6. What is malaria and how many people does it kill each year?
7. What does "anchoring" refer to in behavioral psychology?
8. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?
9. What is yellow fever and what are its effects?
10. How many people were affected by the 1918 flu? What statistics for the plague are cited in "Plagues of Warning"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the cognitive biases that distend or distort one's perceptions of a changing climate. What is anchoring? What is suggested by the ambiguity effect? What does anthropocentric thinking mean?
Essay Topic 2
Why is climate change not largely addressed in film, television, literature, and the media? What aspects of this crisis make it not frequently dramatized? How do you think it would change things if climate change were central in the plot of these narratives?
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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