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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. Why do commercial jets fly in the stratosphere?
(a) To allow for the seatbelt sign to go off.
(b) To avoid mid-air collisions.
(c) To save on fuel.
(d) To avoid turbulence.

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

3. What does Kolbert use to make yeast glow?
(a) Fluorescent light.
(b) Glow in the dark gel.
(c) A lava lamp.
(d) A jellyfish gene.

4. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?
(a) Gefilte fish.
(b) Fertilizer.
(c) Fish patties.
(d) Pet food.

5. Kolbert tells the reader that geothermal plants are relatively clean but do produce what gases?
(a) Hydrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide.
(b) Hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide.
(c) Hydrogen monoxide and carbon monoxide.
(d) Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does Kolbert compare being hit by a jumping carp?

3. What is it called when the rock from underground is brought up to meet the carbon dioxide, rather than the other way around?

4. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?

5. Who is Edda Aradóttir?

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