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

2. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make them edible.
(b) Make them hard to swallow.
(c) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.
(d) Make them less abundant.

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

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

5. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?
(a) Small fish that live among the coral.
(b) Coral spawning.
(c) The changing of colors of coral.
(d) Coral being put under strain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was electric shock chosen to deter the fish?

2. Where is the geothermal plant located that Kolbert visits in Up in the Air: Chapter 1?

3. What is Brodifacoum?

4. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?

5. What did the cannibal snails cause in Hawaii?

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