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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. How many carbon emissions was China responsible for in 2017?
2. What does CCS stand for?
3. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?
4. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?
5. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Hurricane Harvey impact Houston environmentally?
2. What impacts does the author describe in Part I: Cascades if the global temperature rises 3.2 degrees Celsius, as projected by the IPCC?
3. What is the Paris Agreement? When was it ratified?
4. What does the author say about methane release in relation to melting ice sheets in "Drowning"?
5. What is atmospheric particulate matter?
6. What is the World Bank and when was it formed?
7. How is the freshwater that is available used by civilization (i.e.: What percentages are devoted to different uses)?
8. What is "coral bleaching" and why is it important?
9. What is the IPCC?
10. What is "wet-bulb temperature"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the growth of wildfires across the western United States and other regions globally in the past century. What has been attributed to the rise in wildfires? How have the natures of the fires themselves changed? What is projected for the future regarding wildfire in these regions?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the critical response to The Uninhabitable Earth. What criticism has come from the climate change community? What criticism has come from outside that community? Why is this book compared to Silent Spring?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the increase in hurricane frequency globally in the past century. How have hurricanes changed? What has caused these changes? What is projected for the future regarding hurricane activity?
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