Answer the following questions: What is El Niño? What is La Niña? How do El Niño and La Niña differ? 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: 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: Choose one region on the world map. How does the climate there differ during El Niño and La Niña? 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: 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. Slide One: Introduction  Describe El Niño and La Niña in your own words. Add at least one image to add interest. Slide Two: Compare and Contrast  Explain how El Niño and La Niña differ. .

1. Answer the following questions:
What is El Niño?
What is La Niña?
How do El Niño and La Niña differ?
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:
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

2. 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:
Choose one region on the world map. How does the climate
there differ during El Niño and La Niña?
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:
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?

3. 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.
Slide One: Introduction
Describe El Niño and La Niña in your own words.

4. Add at least one image to add interest.
Slide Two: Compare and Contrast
Explain how El Niño and La Niña differ.
Add at least one image to clarify the differences.
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.
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.