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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A widely supported view regarding years the effect of human behavior on the environment is that it did not really become significant until when?

3. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?

4. Lackner also believes that dealing with emissions should be similar to dealing with what?

5. Kolbert describes a carbon scrubbing machine invented by Lackner. To what does she compare it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a suppression drive?

3. How is cutting emissions at once absolutely essential and insufficient?

4. According to Climeworks, why does it make sense to turn carbon dioxide to stone?

5. What are negative emissions? Why might they be important?

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

7. 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?

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

9. What is Climeworks?

10. What is usually use to kill rodents? What are the problems associated with this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kolbert uses both present tense and past tense throughout under a white sky. When does she use present tense and why? When does she use past tense and why? Does this change in tenses help the reader? Why or why not? And what other ways to Colbert try to take challenging information and make it more interesting and understanding for the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Kolbert frequently mentions the price tag for human intervention. Why might she do this? How does this affect the reader? What does it also mean for the work done by specialists to save ecosystems? How might these high prices impact decisions made regarding the environment?

Essay Topic 3

And under a white sky into the wild chapter 3, Kolbert begins and ends the chapter talking about gods. What does she say about gods in this chapter? Of what does this inform the reader? How does this talk about gods affect the tone of the book? How secure does the reader feel about mankind in his abilities in relation to this talk of gods?

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