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Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 19th, 2009, 9:09 am
by soobsession
Fuzzy Mint wrote:they ask all sorts of questions. at regionals we had a ton on koppen, and a bit on fossils, but this time we had our quiz on the computer, odd, and were actually able to use the internet to search the internet, even odder, and the quiz part was all multiple choice, while there was also another part that was a "game" where you had to change different variables (volcanic eruption, % c02 increase, albedo etc.) to make your graph match a given graph. which was interesting but i dont think we could have prepared for at all....
anyway, thanks everyone for the help! states were today, and the my not-particularly-great-but-not-terrible results;
meteorology- 4
compute this-5
reach for the stars-6
scrambler-7
and the whole team got 2nd, so we won't be going to nationals. so good luck to everyone who does go to nationals! may you cream the team that beat us by 20 pts and has for as long as anyone can remember. (sorry, no offence to that team, they're just good, but it does get kinda tiring getting beat by the one same team over and over and over and over and over......)
congrats! you did better than me in meteorology
(i placed, but not that greatly. dont ask please). hehe...yout competition situation is way similar to ours...
good job on all of your events!
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 19th, 2009, 12:52 pm
by chill
I'm pretty sure El Nino and La Nina are a big part off state tests.
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 19th, 2009, 3:35 pm
by chill
Does anyone know the causes of La Nina??
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 19th, 2009, 3:46 pm
by soobsession
bleh...we studies soooooo hard for el nino, la nina. but no. no. not a single trace of it was on the test.
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 19th, 2009, 3:48 pm
by crabnebula143
chill wrote:Does anyone know the causes of La Nina??
http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina_new_faq.html (this is the 1st thing that came up on google)
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 19th, 2009, 4:05 pm
by chill
Thanks for the link. It helped me a bit.
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 20th, 2009, 6:56 am
by tigerman0828
la nina is when the winds shift and south america gets cold.
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 20th, 2009, 3:05 pm
by EastStroudsburg13
Yes, but he/she asked for the cause. I would think it's the same cause as El Nino, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 20th, 2009, 7:00 pm
by doctor
isn't la nina the opposite of el nino???
because if it is the cause would be different otherwise it would be the same
right??
Re: Meteorology(climate)
Posted: April 20th, 2009, 7:02 pm
by pjgscioisamazing
doctor wrote:isn't la nina the opposite of el nino???
because if it is the cause would be different otherwise it would be the same
right??
Well one of the contributions to el nino or la nina is the trade winds. La Nina has strong trade winds and El Nino has weak trade winds. this affects the upwelling of the sea water which has an effect on teh temperature of teh water.