ENG 221 Final (questions with verified answers)
2025/2026 update
1. wonder a feeling of surprised mingled with admiration caused by something
beautiful,
unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable
2. 2 degrees F planets avg temp has risen how many degrees since the late 19th c.
3. 2016 warmest year on record (8/12 months of that year were the warmest on
record
for those respective months)
4. temp of 122.4 de- in 2018 pakistan had the highest recorded
grees
5. 30 percent the acidity of the ocean has increased how much percent since the last 70
years/since the industrial revolution alone
6. 6 ft or more by the end of the c. sea levels could rise
7. 15 ft/day animals are moving to the poles at what average rate per day?
8. end of century we are in danger of losing 50% of all living species on earth by
9. carbon sink place where wastes are accumulated, either deliberately or not.
industrial powers of the 20th c. treated the atmosphere and oceans as
this, wrongly believing them capable of absorbing all the wastes
humans produced, in perpetuity
10. greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and others that
gas- es trap infrared radiation and therefore heat the Earth above the
temperature that would prevail in their absence
11. human (1) the belief that there are no limits to human adaptability—that we
adaptive can either adapt to any circumstances, or change them to suit
optimism ourselves. belief in geoengi- neering as a climate "solution" was a
,ENG 221 Final (questions with verified answers)
2025/2026 update
subset of it.
(2) the capacity of
humans to remain
optimistic and adapt
to changed cir-
cumstances, even in
the face of daunting
diflculties, and even if
the form of
,ENG 221 Final (questions with verified answers)
2025/2026 update
"adaptation" involves suttering
-occurs in Parable of the Sower, David from AI, father and son in the Road
12. market quasi-religious dogma (invisible hand) promoting unregulated markets over
funda- all other forms of human socioeconomic organization. people who
mentalism support this tend to deny the the existence of market failure, thus
playing a key role in the denial of changes that are already under way;
free markets/workings of economy, gov't regulation is a bad thing for the
economy
13. carbon- the interlinked fossil fuel extraction, refinement, and combustion industries, fi-
combus- tion nanciers, and gov't regulatory agencies that enabled and defended
complex destabiliza- tion of the world's climate in the name of employment,
growth, and prosperity
14. environment the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or
operates
15. Anthropecene the geologic period, beginning in approximately 1750 with the start of
the Indus- trial Revolution, when humans have become geological
agents whose activities ettectively compete with, and begin to
overwhelm, geophysical, geochemical, and biological processes
16. methane what is created by the melting of permafrost?
17. albedo Ability of a surface to reflect light; ice is extremely reflective
18. narrator of 20. addictive con- sumption
col- lapse
19. conspicious
con- sumption
,ENG 221 Final (questions with verified answers)
2025/2026 update
Chinese scientist from the the consumption of goods not for one's direct pleasure, but simply to sho
future ott to others
a physiological or psychological dependency on products or services
2025/2026 update
1. wonder a feeling of surprised mingled with admiration caused by something
beautiful,
unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable
2. 2 degrees F planets avg temp has risen how many degrees since the late 19th c.
3. 2016 warmest year on record (8/12 months of that year were the warmest on
record
for those respective months)
4. temp of 122.4 de- in 2018 pakistan had the highest recorded
grees
5. 30 percent the acidity of the ocean has increased how much percent since the last 70
years/since the industrial revolution alone
6. 6 ft or more by the end of the c. sea levels could rise
7. 15 ft/day animals are moving to the poles at what average rate per day?
8. end of century we are in danger of losing 50% of all living species on earth by
9. carbon sink place where wastes are accumulated, either deliberately or not.
industrial powers of the 20th c. treated the atmosphere and oceans as
this, wrongly believing them capable of absorbing all the wastes
humans produced, in perpetuity
10. greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and others that
gas- es trap infrared radiation and therefore heat the Earth above the
temperature that would prevail in their absence
11. human (1) the belief that there are no limits to human adaptability—that we
adaptive can either adapt to any circumstances, or change them to suit
optimism ourselves. belief in geoengi- neering as a climate "solution" was a
,ENG 221 Final (questions with verified answers)
2025/2026 update
subset of it.
(2) the capacity of
humans to remain
optimistic and adapt
to changed cir-
cumstances, even in
the face of daunting
diflculties, and even if
the form of
,ENG 221 Final (questions with verified answers)
2025/2026 update
"adaptation" involves suttering
-occurs in Parable of the Sower, David from AI, father and son in the Road
12. market quasi-religious dogma (invisible hand) promoting unregulated markets over
funda- all other forms of human socioeconomic organization. people who
mentalism support this tend to deny the the existence of market failure, thus
playing a key role in the denial of changes that are already under way;
free markets/workings of economy, gov't regulation is a bad thing for the
economy
13. carbon- the interlinked fossil fuel extraction, refinement, and combustion industries, fi-
combus- tion nanciers, and gov't regulatory agencies that enabled and defended
complex destabiliza- tion of the world's climate in the name of employment,
growth, and prosperity
14. environment the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or
operates
15. Anthropecene the geologic period, beginning in approximately 1750 with the start of
the Indus- trial Revolution, when humans have become geological
agents whose activities ettectively compete with, and begin to
overwhelm, geophysical, geochemical, and biological processes
16. methane what is created by the melting of permafrost?
17. albedo Ability of a surface to reflect light; ice is extremely reflective
18. narrator of 20. addictive con- sumption
col- lapse
19. conspicious
con- sumption
,ENG 221 Final (questions with verified answers)
2025/2026 update
Chinese scientist from the the consumption of goods not for one's direct pleasure, but simply to sho
future ott to others
a physiological or psychological dependency on products or services
