To Edit a Planet

What is the best definition of Geoengineering?

• the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system

• the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items

• The operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production

• the application of engineering principles to analyze biological systems and to solve problems in the interfacing of such systems

The Earth is warming...?

• properly

• steadily

• rapidly

• slowly

What is the main branch of geoengineering focuses on...?

• Building up against rising sea levels

• Reducing the incidence of acid rain

• Creating more rain

• Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

What is the best meaning of carbon sequestration?

• The production a carbon-rich material during the thermochemical decomposition of biomass

• the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

• involves adding nutrients to the upper (sunlit) layers of the ocean to stimulate phytoplankton activity

• The distribution of finely ground silicate rock, such as basalt, onto land or sea

Which of the following is a plant-based material used as fuel to produce heat or electricity?

• Biomass

• Biochar

• Bioplasm

• Bioherm

What is ocean upwelling?

• The process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

• The process in which deep, cold water rises toward the surface.

• The process of adding nutrients to the upper (sunlit) layers of the ocean to stimulate phytoplankton activity

• Rising sea levels

Which of the following is NOT a strategy for reducing the warming impact of solar radiation?

• Aerosol injection

• Marine cloud brightening

• Cloud thinning

• Super sunshades

What is the word for 'the proportion of the incident light or radiation that is reflected by a surface, typically that of a planet or moon'?

• abbozzo

• abatjour

• abacinate

• albedo

What is the weather modification technique that improves a cloud's ability to produce rain or snow by artificially adding condensation nuclei to the atmosphere,

• cloud seeding

• cloud buster

• cool roof

• fog harps

What is the basis of the The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD)?

• prohibiting the biochemical use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.

• prohibiting governmental use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.

• prohibiting the commercial use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.

• prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.