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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lackner also believes that dealing with emissions should be similar to dealing with what?
(a) Sewage.
(b) Domesticated animals.
(c) Natural disasters.
(d) Criminals.

2. What is a suppression drive?
(a) A gene drive that makes all recessive genes dominant.
(b) A gene drive that suppresses one’s immune system.
(c) A gene drive that kills off a species.
(d) A gene drive that would overpower natural selection.

3. Why were cane toads first introduced outside of their natural environments?
(a) To keep ponds clear of algae.
(b) To replace another extinct toad species.
(c) To eat fly larvae.
(d) To kill the beetle grubs that were eating sugar cane.

4. How does Tizard hope to teach other animals to avoid the cane toads?
(a) To show other species how scared and hard to find these toads are.
(b) Use the non-lethal toads to teach other animals that cane toads make you sick, so you should not eat them.
(c) Use glowing toads to scare away other species.
(d) Use small, foul-tasting toads to teach other species that these toads do not taste good.

5. Where did the house mouse originate?
(a) North America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Europe.
(d) Indian subcontinent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?

2. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?

3. What mammals were first experimented on with CRISPR and the gene drive?

4. What is the scientific name for the Devil’s Hole pupfish?

5. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

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