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| As the World Turns... Backwards |
by Desiree Watts
Lowrey School, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
(presented at the 1994 EarthStorm Science Fair)
My name is Desiree Watts, I'm
thirteen, and I go to Lowrey School near Tahlequah, OK. My project was "As
The World Turns...Backwards." I chose this
project because I wanted to see what would happen if the Earth rotated in the
opposite direction.
I studied many types of weather and received answers to
my questions that I didn't understand or didn't know from J.T. Johnson (Lowrey's
[EarthStorm] mentor from the National Severe Storms Laboratory). I got all my
Mesonet data off the computer and used it to help support my hypothesis. I used
solar radiation maps, Oklahoma Mesonet weather maps, and time series graphs.
I
am very proud to win 1st place in the 1994 EarthStorm Science Fair. I learned
a lot about different types of weather and that if the Earth rotated in the
opposite direction many, many things would change on Earth geographically,
historically, and weather-wise. I learned how the opposite rotation would change
wind patterns, ocean currents, weather fronts, plate tectonics, El Niño,
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