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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. According to Kolbert, if the Anthropocene’s clearest geological marker is a spike in radioactive particles, what is its clearest biological marker?
(a) A spike in rodents.
(b) A spike in disease.
(c) A decline in disease.
(d) A decline in rodents.

2. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?
(a) It would send mankind to another planet.
(b) It would create solar panels to power the world and scrub carbon from the atmosphere.
(c) It would turn carbon dioxide to stone in a matter of days.
(d) It would shoot small diamond particles into the stratosphere.

3. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?
(a) Regular above ground nuclear blasts and the pumping of water for a new community.
(b) Rising sea levels and air temperatures.
(c) An earthquake and drought.
(d) Over-crowding of species and an overgrown fungus.

4. How did Kolbert first learn of Devil’s Hole?
(a) A business trip to Nevada.
(b) From a television advertisement.
(c) In a grad course in college.
(d) A crime that was committed there that was considered a felony.

5. What was Klaus Lackner hired to study in the 1970s, which was supposed to be the answer to the emissions problem?
(a) Fusion.
(b) Negative emissions.
(c) Fossil fuels.
(d) Hydrogen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brodifacoum?

2. Kolbert tells the reader that geothermal plants are relatively clean but do produce what gases?

3. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?

4. How far away is a fake Devil’s Hole from the real one?

5. What is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?

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