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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 do biologists like Tizard hope to get the power to spread genetic modifications throughout a species?
(a) Dominant genes.
(b) Rogue genes.
(c) Outliar genes.
(d) Outlaw genes.

2. What is the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere called?
(a) Emissions removal.
(b) Carbon dioxide releasing.
(c) Negative emissions.
(d) De-dioxification.

3. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 50.
(b) 500.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

5. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?
(a) It will eventually detach and float away.
(b) It will no longer look like a boot.
(c) It will eventually sink and disappear.
(d) It will eventually look more like an island.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does bleaching do to coral?

2. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?

3. A widely supported view regarding years the effect of human behavior on the environment is that it did not really become significant until when?

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

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

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