Named after this winter holiday in the Northern Hemisphere
What is Christmas
100
This familiar state is very unpredictable when it comes to predicting El Nino effects.
What is Maryland.
100
A disease that is spread on a large scale due to el nino.
What is Malaria
100
3 nations in which disease is spreading due to El Niño.
What are India, Brazil, or Venezuela?
100
The spread of malaria can be prevented through use of this simple technology.
What is mosquito netting?
200
These countries are most affected by the warmer water temperatures
What are Peru and Ecuador
200
This is the percentage predicted that El Nino will develop in Maryland by late fall.
What is 80%
200
This technology can help people prepare for weather that is coming.
What is forcasting
200
Areas in North America where El Niño leads to warmer weather.
What is the northern United States, Alaska, and Canada?
200
This organization works with a World Health Organization task force to predict El Niño based on scientific and technical information.
What is the World Meteorological Organization?
300
Under what condition is warm Eastward water pushed to the West and then replaced by cold water in East?
What is normal condition
300
In the United States, El Nino brings increased storminess, more precipitation and (warmer or cooler)? than normal temperatures from California to Florida
What is cooler.
300
Technology that can prevent the spread of malaria
What are insecticide treated mosquito nets.
300
Organizations working to accurately forecast El Niño based on scientific and technical information.
What are The World Meteorological Organization and the World Health Organization?
300
These are cheaper than diesel pumps, and can be used to irrigate groundwater to offset crop loss caused by El Niño in India.
What are "bamboo pedal pumps"?
400
El Nino occurs at this regular time interval
What is 4-12 years
400
Where is El Nino the driving force for powerful monsoon storms?
What is India.
400
The relationship between el nino and this phenomenon has not been proven, it is likely that there is a connection.
What is global warming.
400
"The Little Boy"
What does El Niño mean?
400
This technology helps communities anticipate and prepare for disasters associated with El Niño.
What is seasonal forecasting technology?
500
This cyclic mechanism results in the weak winds effecting warmer water which effects weaker winds.
What is positive feedback loop
500
This is one of the main reasons that El Nino effects aren't as predictable in Maryland.
What is ocean temperatures are relatively constant.
500
Disease that is spread between Japan and the west coast due to el nino.
What is Kawasaki disease?
500
Storms and frontal systems follow paths that are significantly different from normal, resulting in persistent temperature and precipitation anomalies in many regions.
What happens during warm episodes of El Niño?
500
Diligent maintenance of these two types of systems can help to minimize the spread of disease.