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

2. What is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?
(a) Their mating call is very annoying and loud.
(b) They are toxic.
(c) They multiple very quickly.
(d) They eat almost anything.

3. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?
(a) The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
(b) Horton Hears a Who.
(c) The Cat in the Hat.
(d) Fox in Sox.

4. What is it called when the rock from underground is brought up to meet the carbon dioxide, rather than the other way around?
(a) Chemical scrubbing.
(b) Chemical weathering.
(c) Enhanced weathering.
(d) Enhanced scrubbing.

5. How many of Lackner’s trailer-sized carbon scrubbing units would be needed to significantly reduce the carbon footprint?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 1 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do aerosol particles create cooler temperatures?

2. Darwin realized correctly that at the center of every atoll was what?

3. What are two examples that Keith gives for what people have done right, regarding the environment?

4. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?

5. Why were low-lying parts of New Orleans not abandoned to the water?

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