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Read the information below answer the background information questions. Then, follow the instructions to convey your findings in a slideshow presentation. What Is ENSO? © 2016 NOAA Climate.gov El Niño and La Niña are recurring climate patterns across the tropical Pacific. Together they make up the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or "ENSO" for short. ENSO is Earth's most influential natural climate pattern. The pattern can shift back and forth irregularly every two to seven years and cause disruptions of temperature, precipitation, and winds. These changes disrupt the air movements in the tropics. During El Niño, there are warmer sea surface temperatures in the Pacific. This weakens the easterly winds. During La Niña, the sea surface temperatures are cooler than normal, and the easterly winds become stronger.
Answer the following questions: 1. What is El Niño? 2. What is La Niña? 3. How do El Niño and La Niña differ? United States Impacts © 2016 NOAA Climate.gov By modifying the Pacific jet streams, El Niño and La Niña can affect temperature and precipitation across the United States. The influence on the U.S. is strongest during the Northern Hemisphere winter. This map shows typical impacts of La Niña on U.S. winter weather. These impacts have been associated with La Niña events in the past, but not all of these impacts happen during every La Niña episode. Answer the following question: 4. Based on the wintertime La Niña weather map, what do you think Florida's temperature and precipitation would be like during a winter El Niño event? Global Impacts El Niño and La Niña have their strongest impact on global climate during the Northern Hemisphere winter and early spring. El Niño and La Niña are opposite patterns. El Niño warms, and La Niña cools large areas of the tropical Pacific, which influences where and how much it rains there. This disrupts the atmospheric circulation patterns, which affect the mid-latitude jet streams. By modifying the jet streams, ENSO can affect temperature and precipitation across the United States and in other parts of the world. Answer the following question: 5. Choose one region on the world map. How does the climate there differ during El Niño and La Niña? © 2016 NOAA Climate.gov © 2016 NOAA Climate.gov The Aftermath Satellite image of record-breaking trio of Pacific hurricanes, Kilo, Ignacio, and Jimena on August 31, 2015. NOAA GOES West image from NOAA EVL.© 2016 NOAA Climate.gov El Niño was responsible for the following events in 2015: 16 tropical cyclones in the central Pacific hurricane basin · three category 4 hurricanes occurred at the same time · emergency water rationed in St. Lucia and San Juan 65 percent of Antigua's farmers went out of business northern, central, and southeastern Ethiopian highlands received 50–90 percent of their normal rainfall Answer the following question: 6. Select one of the effects from the list. Explain how the El Niño event affected weather, food
production, water supply, or human health. What is a possible solution to reduce the damaging effects? Making Your Presentation It's time to use your technology skills to show what you have learned about El Niño and La Niña. Your presentation will be a slideshow that does the following: explains El Niño and La Niña ·compares and contrasts El Niño and La Niña ·makes predictions about the effects of El Niño and La Niña on local climate illustrates the effects of El Niño on real-world issues provides a solution for the damaging effects of an El Niño and La Niña event Procedure Select a program of your choice (Microsoft PowerPoint, Prezi, Google Slides, etc.) to create a slideshow presentation. Add images that will help illustrate your answers. Be sure to cite the sources of the images. Follow the template below to create your slideshow. Use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation in your slideshow. 1. Slide One: Introduction · Describe El Niño and La Niña in your own words. Add at least one image to add interest. 2. Slide Two: Compare and Contrast Explain how El Niño and La Niña differ. Add at least one image to clarify the differences. 3. Slide Three: Data Analysis · Explain how the climate in a specific region differs during El Niño and La Niña. Add at least one image to clarify the climate differences. 4. Slide Four: Effects
Describe how an El Niño event affected weather, food production, water supply, or human health. ·Use at least one image to illustrate the effect(s). 5. Slide Five: Conclusion Provide a possible solution to reduce the damaging effects of an El Niño or La Niña event. Use at least one image to clarify the solution.
Exp19_Access_Ch03_CapAssessment - Retirement Accounts 1.1 Project Description: One-Stop Finance is a company that works with Clients in all areas of finance. They assist with banking, financial planning, mortgages, stock, insurance, retirement counseling, and debt consolidation. Cala Hamieh, one of the senior planners for the company, is hoping to extract information from the database. The company has a large database with hundreds of thousands of accounts, but to allow you to rapidly test your queries, you have created a smaller version of the database with a small amount of clients. Once you are confident your queries work, you can import them in to the main Access database. Steps to Perform: Step Instructions Points Possible 1 Start Access. Open the downloaded Access file named Exp19_Access_Ch03_CapAssessment_Retirement_Accounts.accdb. Grader has automatically added your last name to the beginning of the filename. Create a query using Query Design. From the Clients table, display the client’s FirstName and LastName. From the Accounts table, select the Savings Balance and OpenDate. Sort the query by Savings Balance in descending order. Save the query as Account Longevity. Add a calculated field named AccountTime that calculates the number of days each client’s accounts have been open. Assume today’s date is 12/31/2019. Recall dates must be enclosed in # to denote to Access it is a date. Format the results in General Number format. Run the query. Close the query. Create a query using
Query Design. From the Clients table, display the client's FirstName and LastName. From the Accounts table, select the Savings Balance. Add appropriate grouping so the client’s total retirement account savings balances are displayed. Add a sort so the highest total savings balances are displayed first. Switch to Datasheet view. Add a totals row displaying the count of the last name and the average of total savings balances. Save the query as Total Balances By Client, and close the query. Create a copy of the Total Balances By Client query. Name the query Total Balances By State. Open the query in Design view and remove the client name from the query. Add grouping by the client’s State. Sort by the client’s State in Ascending order and remove the sort on the Savings Balance. Add criteria so clients with retirement account savings balances of $12,000 or more are factored in to the query. Switch to Datasheet view. Save and close the query. Create a new query using Query Design. From the Clients table, select the client FirstName, LastName, and State. From the Accounts table, select the Savings Balance. Add criteria so only customers with balances under $13,000 are displayed. Add a new field named LoanPayment using the Expression Builder. Insert the Pmt function to determine the monthly payment for a 2-year loan, paid monthly, with a 5% yearly interest rate. The present value is 25000 minus the Savings Balance. The number displays as a positive number. Change the format of the LoanPayment field to Currency. Change the caption to Loan Payment. Run the query. Save the query as Monthly Loan Payments and close the query. 10 Step Instructions Points Possible 12 Close all database objects. Close the database and then exit Access. Submit the database as directed. 0 Total Points 100 Exp19_Access_Ch03_CapAssessmentRetirement Accounts 1.1 Project Description: Steps to Perform: