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The wiki has a bunch of info on tectonic plates in oceanography. Anyone know if they'll have the same precedence in this year's test?

diophantine wrote: ↑September 10th, 2019, 5:15 am The wiki has a bunch of info on tectonic plates in oceanography. Anyone know if they'll have the same precedence in this year's test?

From the rules:

3.v. Processes of tectonic plate motion[ in Ocean basins and patterns of age of the ocean floor

I'd assume that tectonics will be part of the event

Umaroth wrote: ↑September 10th, 2019, 6:22 am

diophantine wrote: ↑September 10th, 2019, 5:15 am The wiki has a bunch of info on tectonic plates in oceanography. Anyone know if they'll have the same precedence in this year's test?

From the rules:

3.v. Processes of tectonic plate motion[ in Ocean basins and patterns of age of the ocean floor

I'd assume that tectonics will be part of the event

Yeah, tectonics were a big part of oceanography last time it came around ...it was very easy to transition to tectonics when oceanography cycled out.

On a lot of tectonic tests there were sections on basins, stuff like forearc, backarc, etc. so I can see those making some more appearances on oceanography exams.

I personally am puzzled by the switch to binder, as I actually thought 8 sheets was a lot as is, so I’m pretty interested to see where this takes the event! Back in 2016 when I did oceanography as my first topic, I thought note based tests were actually kinda common on easier levels, but harder levels of competition had harder more application based tests, so I’m sure we will see a similar trend this year! (I’d hope haha)

Umaroth wrote: ↑September 9th, 2019, 4:23 pm

Unome wrote: ↑September 9th, 2019, 10:28 am

Molybon wrote: ↑September 9th, 2019, 8:07 am
I think they took it away because of how narrow the topic was/ event supervisors had a hard time writing the tests. I felt that most of the tests were either very similar or focused on topics not really within the realm of the event. I'm super excited for oceanography! (Even though tectonics is my fav)

They did not take it away. It just rotated out normally.

Yes, Dynamic is now a 1 year rotation, meaning 2021 is tectonics and hopefully 2022 is back to glaciers unless they bring freshwater back in.

Really? Interesting. I'm not the most experienced scioly member, but I've never heard of one year rotations for Dynamic. I'm glad I'll probably get tectonics back though!

I can’t wait to see what they do with history now that we have a binder....

JoeyC wrote: ↑September 13th, 2019, 5:38 pm what was the zip code of the library the 3rd scientist to add to the discussion on Ekman flow frequented?

LOOOOL Yes. I can see supervisors going off on scientist facts

I don't really see them going too hard on the scientist aspect of it, rather making super obscure questions about seas or currents. I'm taking notes on weird obscure things that happen in the ocean (i.e. Bay of Fundy, Davidson Current)

BennyTheJett wrote: ↑September 14th, 2019, 7:29 am I don't really see them going too hard on the scientist aspect of it

flips through hundreds of pages of history in the Thermo/Machines binder