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El Nino Learning Cycle
Learning Pre-Check:
1. What have you heard in the news or from other people or from social media about El Nino? What is it?
Explore: Using Buoy Data
Part I: Buoy Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzBAWirHMvA
2. Where is the TAO buoy array in the Pacific Ocean?
3. How is the information from buoys used?
Explain: Upwelling
To Understand El Nino, we must first understand what Upwelling is in the ocean. Watch this video animation
and read the article to answer the following questions. (Summarize what is said in the animation and the
article in your own words)
http://www.cengage.com/biology/discipline_content/animations/upwelling.html
http://education.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/upwelling/
4. Describe how upwelling works:
5. How is upwelling important?
Explain: Sketch conditions in the ocean. Use the resources posted on our class website to help you.
NORMAL CONDITIONS
EL NINO
LA NINA
Elaborate: Impacts of El Nino – fishing, rain, drought, health conditions, economics
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/101-videos/el-nino?source=searchvideo
6. What are the impacts of El Nino on the weather in SE Asia?
7. What are the impacts of El Nino on California’s weather?
8. What are the economic impacts of El Nino?
9. What are the impacts of El Nino on fishing in Peru and in CA? Why?
10. Think about it: How would warmer land temperatures impact human health?
11. Think about it: How would increased flooding impact human health?
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