The Environment Quiz

Test your knowledge of the environment by identifying these facts from Atlantic articles.

1) How many degrees Fahrenheit did the global temperature rise in the last century?
1 degree
6 degrees
15 degrees
40 degrees
2) According to a 2005 National Academy of Sciences study, how much will the ocean rise in the next 100 years?
15 to 20 feet
6 to 11 feet
4 inches to 3 feet
1 to 3 inches
3) Which one of the following areas is NOT likely to be made more hospitable by global warming?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe
Siberia
Washington, DC
4) What source is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions?
livestock
SUVs
Tractor-trailers
airplanes
5) Who famously wrote, "All good things are wild and free"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Wordsworth
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
6) Who was the first president of the Sierra club?
David Brower
John Muir
John James Audobon
Theodore Roosevelt
7) In 1850, Vermont was 35 percent covered by forest. What percentage of Vermont's land is covered by forest today?
10 percent
50 percent
80 percent
35 percent
8) Whose pioneering work during the 1960s launched the Green Revolution and garnered a Nobel Prize?
Rachel Carson
Norman Borlaug
Paul Ehrlich
Edward Abbey
9) Who comprehensively amended the Clean Air Act in 1990 (an act the Supreme Court recently determined is not being adequately upheld)?
Barbara Boxer
Joseph Biden
George H.W. Bush
Tom Daschle
10) What neighborhood became famous as the site of this country's worst chemical waste disaster, and led to the passage of the Superfund law?
Woburn, Massachusetts
Butte, Montana
Love Canal, New York
Hinkley, California
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