National test discussion

[SOnerd]

I forgot to ask earlier, for those of you who took the Entomology B test at Nats, what did you get for the question asking what part of the wood the termite eats?
My partner and I put cellulose, which I'm not sure was correct.

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For those of you who did Fossils, how hard was the test?

[varunscs11]

Not too sure for Div B because I'm pretty sure the tests are different

[JoJoKeKe]

For those of you who did Fossils, how hard was the test?

I'm in Division B and did fossils. However, I don't know how accurate my recollection of the event is since I got 37th place... (I did all studying by myself using online resources; no present coach!)

The test seemed to be a good amount of difficulty. However, it was the time that definitely got me...

Some of the difficult questions pertained to:

Identifying 10 dinosaurs... in 2 minutes.

Mosasauridae - had to know some of the ecology and information of this group.

Fenestrae, branching, and massive - I have no clue why I didn't even study this.

A station asking which sample was a worm burrow. (None of them looked like a worm burrow!)

Questions similar to: Are all these organisms in phylum Bryozoa? -- difficult because there would on occasion be only one organism closely related but not in Bryozoa.

Questions asking you to describe trilobite eye structure of samples (schizochroal, etc.)
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That seemed to be the gist of the test. Other standard classification questions, ecology, etc. A great level of difficulty! I think it's really going to help me prepare for next year.

[RontgensWallaby]

I forgot to ask earlier, for those of you who took the Entomology B test at Nats, what did you get for the question asking what part of the wood the termite eats?
My partner and I put cellulose, which I'm not sure was correct.

We put cellulose as well. It was the only specific thing we could get from our book, and I suppose it seemed to be a correct answer because there is that special part of the digestion of cellulose by termites.

[Unome]

For those of you who did Fossils, how hard was the test?

It was a difficult test, but not the most difficult I've taken in the event (if any of you Fossils people competed at Dodgen Invitational...)

[Indess]

For events that have "nationals only" topics, how much of the test was focused on those topics?

Hmm. Actually, for Crave th Wave, there was actually absolutely nothing on the test about tsunamis or boundary effects on waves

Can you tell me the place where tsunamis hit maximum times?

[Adi1008]

For events that have "nationals only" topics, how much of the test was focused on those topics?

Hmm. Actually, for Crave th Wave, there was actually absolutely nothing on the test about tsunamis or boundary effects on waves

Can you tell me the place where tsunamis hit maximum times?

Was there a question about that? The only tsunami thing I remember is the station where it asked you to graph speed vs. wavelength for ocean waves.