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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. What is the term for when water bursts through a levee, whether man-made or natural?
(a) A water spout.
(b) A creole.
(c) A geyser.
(d) A crevasse.

2. When Manly and the others arrived at the edge of Death Valley, what did they think the fish were that they saw swimming in the cavern pool?
(a) Goldfish.
(b) Carp.
(c) Minnows.
(d) Pupfish.

3. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?
(a) Over 75%.
(b) Just under 90%.
(c) Over 50%.
(d) Over 90%.

4. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?
(a) Ten billion years.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Auxons.
(d) Humans are not very intelligent.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do aerosol particles stay up in the stratosphere?

2. When the canal in Chicago reversed the flow of the river, into where did it eventually lead?

3. When the United States won a case against the developer, Cappaert Enterprises, who took over the land?

4. Why was Camp Century abandoned in 1967?

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

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