El Niño and La Niña Worksheet

After exploring the websites, you will have enough information to answer the following questions. There are 19 true/false questions and 1 short answer question that need to be answered. Submit your work to your instructor and then complete the El Niño and La Niña Quiz.

The information below explains how to answer the questions.

* If the statement is True, answer True for full credit. * If the statement is False, answer False for half credit and then rewrite the sentence to make it a True statement. To make it True, you will likely only need to swap no more than 2-4 words that describe the main concept to make it true.

Here are a couple of examples.

Example #1: True/False: Most of the Earth’s weather occurs in the stratosphere.
Answer: False.
Correct the False: Most of the Earth’s weather occurs in the troposphere.

Example #2: True/False: La Niña in Spanish means “the little boy” and El Niño in Spanish means “the little girl.”
Answer: False
Correct the False: La Niña in Spanish means “the little girl” and El Niño in Spanish means “the little boy.”
OR it can also be written: El Niño in Spanish means “the little boy” and La Niña in Spanish means “the little girl.”

Questions for Credit

1. Ocean waters off Peru and Ecuador become colder than normal during El Niño and warmer than normal during La Niña.
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2. The effects of El Niño or La Niña cause changes in rainfall and temperatures as far away as the United States and Australia.
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3. The southern portions of the United States are more susceptible to severe weather outbreaks during La Niña.
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4. Warm ENSO episodes are associated with weaker than normal near-surface equatorial easterly winds.
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5. The jet streams over the eastern Pacific Ocean are weaker than normal during warm