Dynamic Planet B/C

[rocketman1555]

The test will be released in next year's test packet.

[BYHscioly]

Do you have to pay for the test packets?

Also, will teams ever get their score back - kinda curious on how we did.

Thanks!

I tried to draw a diagram of a glacier with two cirques and a paternoster lake just below it with a crevasse and stuff, but it just turned out to look really wrong. Especially given my rapidly declining drawing skills. o.o

Can't wait until the rule sheets are out

[fanjiatian]

If someone could post some old Glaciers test onto the Scioly Test Archive, that'd be awesome.

[Steelfoam]

What did you guys think of the National DP test?
The C test was a nice test with a nice length and difficulty. I really like how there was no multiple choice on it, like last year, since I can't do multiple choice.
We ended up getting fourth even though we dropped a page of the test on the floor (pages 1 and 2) and didn't do it...

Somehow our string ended up on the floor so we had to do sinuosity with the ruler

[fozendog]

What did you guys think of the National DP test?
The C test was a nice test with a nice length and difficulty. I really like how there was no multiple choice on it, like last year, since I can't do multiple choice.
We ended up getting fourth even though we dropped a page of the test on the floor (pages 1 and 2) and didn't do it...

Somehow our string ended up on the floor so we had to do sinuosity with the ruler

Really!?
We had to do that at State and it was really heard to do!

[mnstrviola]

I had to measure sinousity with a ruler and determine if the river was meandering at regionals. We skipped measuring because we were in a hurry and just guessed that the most curvy one was meandering. We were correct xD.

[BYHscioly]

You're allowed to use a string? Wow... At least my estimations were right

So many weird names in glaciers... Quick - what's a jokulhlaup? What's a paternoster? What is the difference between a bergschrund and a randkluft? What the heck is an arret? Names are all so weird...

I saw a few nationals DP tests before... forgot where - sorry.

[FullMetalMaple]

So many weird names in glaciers... Quick - what's a jokulhlaup? What's a paternoster? What is the difference between a bergschrund and a randkluft? What the heck is an arret? Names are all so weird...

The names seem weird because they're often Icelandic - jokulhlaup, for example. It's only natural, with so many glaciers in Iceland. I think you mean "arête," not arret. "Arête" is French for edge, which gives a clue to its appearance. "Pater noster" is Latin for "our father," so named because pater noster lakes look like rosary beads. "Bergschrund" and "randkluft" are German, I think.

As for what they are, a jokulhlaup is a large glacial flood common in Iceland (imagine that). A pater noster lake is an erosional feature of a valley glacier that forms when a depression on the valley floor, caused by the abrasive action of ice and bedrock, fills with water. A bergschrund is a type of crevasse where moving ice separates from standing ice. Unlike a randkluft, which has one ice wall, a bergschrund has two. An arête is another erosional feature of a valley glacier that looks like a winding sharp ridge; it forms when cirques on opposite sides of a divide grow, narrowing the divide between them. It can also form when the divide between two glaciers narrows.

Clearly, I'm not psyched for this event at all. I mean, hey, it's not as if I used to walk on glaciers that were practically in my backyard or anything...

[fozendog]

Those names look horribly complicated! I wish I spoke Icelandic, that would be so useful. I will feel better when the rules come out and I will actually know what to study for. Do you guys know if USGS is a good place to look up information on glaciers and such for DP next year?

[FullMetalMaple]

Those names look horribly complicated! I wish I spoke Icelandic, that would be so useful. I will feel better when the rules come out and I will actually know what to study for. Do you guys know if USGS is a good place to look up information on glaciers and such for DP next year?

Ég elska íslenska! It's a very complicated language, though. Not that it's stopping me or anything...

I didn't see much on USGS, but I did find this, which might be a useful introduction. My current knowledge comes mostly from experience and a general geology textbook, so I haven't done much Internet research yet. Maybe I should go look for resources when glaciers was last the topic.