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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is NOT a reason given for why taking carbon dioxide out of a gas stream is difficult?
(a) It must be done on a massive scale.
(b) It is expensive.
(c) It is a challenging and dangerous technique.
(d) Disposal of large amounts of carbon dioxide underground would be tricky.

4. What problem is the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia trying to correct?
(a) The overpopulation of a non-native species of toad.
(b) Severe drought and wildfires.
(c) Non-native and invasive species of coral.
(d) Deforestation.

5. What is the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere called?
(a) Carbon dioxide releasing.
(b) Negative emissions.
(c) De-dioxification.
(d) Emissions removal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lackner found in 2014 at ASU?

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

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 is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three major issues with the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

2. What are some of the ways that Kolbert mentions Australians deal with cane toads? What might be the pros and cons?

3. How are geothermal plants clean?

4. What must happen to keep temperature rise to less than two degrees?

5. What is the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

6. What are a couple of the responses when asked about man’s roll and fixing or protecting the environment in into the wild Chapter 3?

7. What is Climeworks?

8. What are the pros and cons of a powerful gene drive?

9. What is a suppression drive?

10. How do cane toads become a problem in Australia?

(see the answer keys)

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