Music
This chord, built on the fifth scale degree, holds a dominant function and often resolves to the tonic in common-practice tonality.
What is a dominant seventh chord?
This phenomenon occurs when an increase in one climate factor causes a series of reactions that amplify the initial change
What is a positive feedback?
This is something that can give us an early warning about the health of the environment, like changes in water quality or species presence.
What is an environmental indicator?
What role do the elders play in Solar Storms?
They provide guidance and spiritual wisdom to the younger characters
What are the two types of unemployment that make up the natural rate of unemployment.
frictional and structural unemployment
What is the key of Ludovico Einaudi's Elegy for the Arctic?
F minor
What is the leading cause of the Anthropocene and the global warming that characterizes it?
Burning of fossil fuels
Which agricultural practice involves the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to increase crop yields?
Green Revolution
In the poem “The Air Smelled Dirty”, the furnace is compared to what?
A loud, aggressive monster
On average, a family of four in Canada spends $175 per week on groceries with a standard deviation of $10. Assume these data are normally distributed. What is the probability of selecting two families that both spend more than $160 per week on groceries?
0.8708 or 87.08%
Which significant event helped Michael Abels gain attention for his work and launch his career as a composer?
His collaboration with director Jordan Peele on the film Get Out
This ancient civilization, located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, was one of the earliest to develop complex agrarian societies during the Holocene.
What is Mesopotamia?
This type of forest management aims to balance logging with conservation to maintain forest health over time
What is sustainable forest management?
What is solarpunk?
Climate fiction that inspires hope
Maria borrows $150,000 to purchase a house at 5.5% annual interest.
What is Maria's monthly mortgage payment, given that she takes out a 25-year mortgage?
$921.13
In Amy Beach’s Hermit Thrush at Morn, the bird songs that inspired the composition were transcribed from which type of bird?
Hermit Thrush
The Little Ice Age is most commonly associated with which time period?
1300 to 1850 CE
What factor refers to the composition of particles in the soil that influences its ability to retain water and nutrients?
soil texture
What major social issue did E.M. Forster often critique in his works?
Class struggles in England
This is the estimated cost in dollars of each additional ton of carbon emissions.
What is the social cost of carbon (SCC)?
This small keyboard-operated percussion instrument, known for its bell-like sound, is used in "On the Trail" to represent the sound of a music box in the movement’s oasis scene.
What is celesta?
This program, formed in 1988, was established to facilitate cooperation between scientists and governments and to address the growing concerns about the climate crisis. It has since become a key player in climate change research and policy recommendations.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?
In a population system, what does a feedback loop typically regulate?
The balance between birth rates and death rates
What did Bush say was "like a song"
What is remembering?
What is the coefficient of x4 in the expansion of (5x+3)6?
84375