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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does it make sense to have a geothermal plant?
(a) In the jungle.
(b) In high altitude.
(c) Along a seashore.
(d) Along a seam of active volcanoes.

2. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?
(a) The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
(b) Fox in Sox.
(c) The Cat in the Hat.
(d) Horton Hears a Who.

3. What is the mouse called that would make it so only male mice survived?
(a) An X-Factor Mouse.
(b) An X-Shredder mouse.
(c) A Y-Power Mouse.
(d) A Y-Yield Mouse.

4. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?
(a) 8 or 9 years ago.
(b) 8,000 or 9,000 years ago.
(c) 800 or 900 years ago.
(d) 80 or 90 years ago.

5. What does bleaching do to coral?
(a) It detaches the symbionts from the coral.
(b) It kills the coral.
(c) It breaks down the relationship between coral and their symbionts.
(d) It causes it to become brittle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was it determined that the Anthropocene Age began?

2. What is the main genetic modification plan for the cane toads in the lab?

3. How many species of birds has the Pacific rat killed off?

4. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?

5. When Manly and the others arrived at the edge of Death Valley, what did they think the fish were that they saw swimming in the cavern pool?

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