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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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%.

2. Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to what regular outbreaks?
(a) Typhoid and Cholera.
(b) Consumption and West Nile Virus.
(c) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(d) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.

3. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?
(a) The coral has never suffered from bleaching.
(b) It had been a sewage dumping ground but the reef started to revive on its own.
(c) It is filled with coral reefs.
(d) The coral population has only continued to grow.

4. When are the eggs harvested and brought back to Devils Hole Jr.?
(a) At the beginning of mating season.
(b) At the peak of season.
(c) In the off-season.
(d) At the end of mating season.

5. 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) Minnows.
(b) Goldfish.
(c) Carp.
(d) Pupfish.

6. What is NOT a reason for why Devil’s Hole is a geological oddity?
(a) It holds water left over from the Pleistocene age.
(b) The cavern is narrow in some areas and very deep in others, much like a swimming pool.
(c) The pupfish have evolved to survive in the harsh conditions of Devils Hole.
(d) The fish were washed here when the whole area had more water and have never been able to leave.

7. How much of the Caribbean coral disappeared in the 1980s?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 90%.
(c) 2/3.
(d) Over 1/2.

8. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1827.

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

10. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?
(a) An earthquake and drought.
(b) Regular above ground nuclear blasts and the pumping of water for a new community.
(c) Over-crowding of species and an overgrown fungus.
(d) Rising sea levels and air temperatures.

11. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?
(a) The water level and activity on that particular day.
(b) The amount of rain the region as received.
(c) The weather report.
(d) The direction of the wind on any particular day.

12. To what is the land in the southern region of Louisiana compared?
(a) A river of mud.
(b) Warm Jell-O.
(c) Slime.
(d) Play-doh.

13. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?
(a) A ticking time bomb to the world's end.
(b) An observable phenomena.
(c) A species travesty.
(d) A timeline to doomsday.

14. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?
(a) Bulbancha.
(b) L'isle de Duc de l'Orléans.
(c) NOLA.
(d) L’Isle de la Nouvelle Orléans.

15. Where is Gates’ institution located?
(a) Off the coast of Sydney, Australia.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) In the Mohave.
(d) Off the coast of Oahu, HI.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Van Oppen and her students’ plans for coral?

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

3. What does Kevin Irons, the assistant chief of fisheries at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, feel is the best way to control the carp population?

4. What book does Kolbert say led to the introduction of Asian carp in U.S. rivers?

5. What does Kolbert find at LSU’s Center for River Studies?

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