Under a White Sky Test | Final Test - Easy

Elizabeth Kolbert
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Under a White Sky Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country produces the most emissions?
(a) The U.S.
(b) Russia.
(c) All African nations combined.
(d) China.

2. What is Brodifacoum?
(a) An anticoagulant used to kill mice.
(b) An antibiotic used to heal sick animals.
(c) A trap used to catch cane toads.
(d) A powerful cleaning and disinfecting product.

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

4. Who is Paul Thomas?
(a) A CRISPR expert.
(b) An employee at Odin.
(c) A toad research expert.
(d) A mouse research expert.

5. To keep the temperature increase at a minimum, the world would have to end all emissions by when?
(a) The next five decades.
(b) The next century.
(c) The next few years.
(d) The next decade.

6. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?
(a) 8 or 9 years ago.
(b) 8,000 or 9,000 years ago.
(c) 800 or 900 years ago.
(d) 80 or 90 years ago.

7. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?
(a) He was exiled.
(b) He was put under house arrest.
(c) He was given funding for more studies.
(d) He received the Nobel Peace prize.

8. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, showed that the majority of possibilities for keeping climate temperatures down require what?
(a) Solar geoengineering.
(b) Positive emissions.
(c) Solar scrubbing.
(d) Negative emissions.

9. What mammals were first experimented on with CRISPR and the gene drive?
(a) Toads.
(b) Rats.
(c) Birds.
(d) Mice.

10. In Into the Wild: Chapter 3, why does Kolbert begin with an explanation of the Norse god, Odin?
(a) To show how dangerous it is to play God.
(b) To compare him to the genetic-engineering company, Odin.
(c) To show the similarities between gods and humans.
(d) To compare him to the powers of nature.

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

12. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?
(a) It would shoot small diamond particles into the stratosphere.
(b) It would create solar panels to power the world and scrub carbon from the atmosphere.
(c) It would turn carbon dioxide to stone in a matter of days.
(d) It would send mankind to another planet.

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

14. What did Lackner found in 2014 at ASU?
(a) The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions.
(b) The Center for Disease Control.
(c) The Center for Solar Geoengineering Studies.
(d) The Center for Global Cooling.

15. Where does it make sense to have a geothermal plant?
(a) In the jungle.
(b) In high altitude.
(c) Along a seam of active volcanoes.
(d) Along a seashore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kolbert mentions that effects of the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic and how emissions dropped how much?

2. What could be used if a gene drive goes rogue?

3. Global temperatures have increased how many degrees Fahrenheit since Watt’s day?

4. How many trees would have to be planted to remove a significant amount of carbon dioxide?

5. To what has gene-drive technology been compared?

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