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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does MacFarlane see on the beach outside the Kollhellaren caves? (from Third Chamber - Chapter 8)

A beautiful sea eagle.

Another person's camp.

Jetsam made up of plastic.

Debris from an old fishing settlement.

2.

During WWII what were the sinkholes in the Slovenian Highlands used for? (from Chapter 7)

Storehouses for ammuntion.

Mass executions.

Booby traps.

Resistance fighters hid there.

3.

What model of forest life did Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard propose in the 1990s? (from Chapter 4)

That forests were collaborative systems full of interrelationships.

That forests were competitive systems where the strong survived and the weak perished.

That fungi were the basis of all the systems in the forest.

That the collaborative systems of a forest communicate through trees.

4.

What is crown shyness? (from Chapter 4)

When tree roots respect each other's space and leave gaps underground.

When biologists and ecologists are too humble to be celebrated for their achievements.

When other organisms of the forest avoid the canopy of the forest to leave it for trees.

When trees respect each other's space and leave gaps in the canopy.

5.

What is a major issue MacFarlane has with the term "Anthropocene?" (from Chapter 3)

Although he believes in climate change, he does not think there is enough evidence that it is human caused.

It sounds too much like anthropology, a discipline it is not related to.

The term smooths over inequalities and the uneven suffering that comes from climate change.

The term was created undemocratically, by a panelists of scientists, and ordinary people had no say.

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