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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. How much of the Caribbean coral disappeared in the 1980s?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 90%.
(c) Over 1/2.
(d) 2/3.

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

3. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?
(a) He was given funding for more studies.
(b) He was put under house arrest.
(c) He received the Nobel Peace prize.
(d) He was exiled.

4. Camp Century was created within the Greenland ice sheet in what year?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

5. When did weather and climate go out of fashion?
(a) In the 1960s.
(b) In the 1990s.
(c) In the 1970s.
(d) In the 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade were weather and climate very popular?

2. To what is the land in the southern region of Louisiana compared?

3. How do aerosol particles create cooler temperatures?

4. What is unfortunate about carbon, even if emissions are reduced or stopped?

5. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?

(see the answer key)

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