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What is el niño? |
El niño is warm water that affects the equatorial pacific region causing rains, floods, etc. |
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What countries does el niño affect? |
Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Australia and Indonesia. |
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How are countries affected by el niño? |
They get flooded by el niño, also a lot of mosquitos come and cause life threatening diseases. |
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What types of diseases does el niño bring? |
Malaria, dengue, muscle pain, headaches, chikungunya |
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How do we know that el niño is coming? |
The sea temperature from the ocean rises. |
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What is sea temperature? |
The measurement from the sea. |
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How can we protect ourselves from mosquitos? |
Mosquito repellent, long sleeves, mosquito nets |
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How can we protect ourselves from the flooding |
Shelters, cement dams, flood gates, street drains |
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How often does el niño come? |
It comes once every few years (7-15) |
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Which year was the strongest el niño? |
Year 1997-1998; that covered houses and trees |
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How many planets are there? |
Eight |
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Is pluto a planet? |
No, it is a dwarf planet. |
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What are the names of the planets? |
Mercury, Earth, Mars, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus. |
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Which is the biggest planet? |
Jupiter |
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Which is the biggest star in the solar system? |
The sun |
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What type of eclipse are there? |
Lunar and Solar |
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What is an lunar eclipse? |
When moon passes behind the earth directly into its shadow. This can only happen when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned (in "syzygy") exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. |
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What is a solar eclipse? |
When moon happens between the Sun and the earth, moon covers the sun completely, this only can happen in a new moon. |
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What is a new moon? |
First phase of the moon, the moon is not visible |
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What is first quarter moon? |
Called “half moon” when moon is at a 90 degree angle in respect to the sun and the Earth. |
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What is a third quarter moon? |
Between full moon and third quarter moon is called waning gibbous moon. |
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What is a full moon? |
When you can see the full moon, the whole moon is illuminated |
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How are seasons created? |
Caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis that makes a part of the earth near the sun and the other part farther away. |
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What causes seasons? |
The earth's tilt. |
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Why does el niño occur? |
El Niño happens when tropical Pacific Ocean trade winds die out and ocean temperatures become unusually warm. There is a flip side toEl Nino called La Nina, which occurs when the trade winds blow unusually hard and the sea temperature become colder than normal |
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What types of environmental problems does el niño bring? |
flooding, heavy rain, humidity |
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What characteristics does the Earth have? |
So far, the Earth is the only planet that has life in it, 5th planet in science, only one moon, it has gravity |
