Dynamic Planet

make sure that you finish ALL PAGES OF THE TEST. we completely got caught up on other pages and trading pages with one another that we compeltely forgot about one page, even though we actually knew like all the answers to that test.

in our year, the test covered lakes, rivers, aquifers/groundwater, karst (wasn't on the test though..)

to be specific, these are the categories that were covered:
 * storm hydrographs (flashy rivers, base line, know how to interpret the graph (ex. what is the meaning of a higher slope, or higher base line level), find the center of mass of the flow, etc)
 * groundwater mapping (like drawing contour lines, determining direction of flow, where a leak in a well would most likely travel, where the valley is located, etc)
 * CONTOUR MAPS: determining direction of river flow, draw the floodplain, find the gradient, the highest point, the lowest point, calculate gradient, sinuosity, regraph the map as a graph that maps the elevation and distance (so from a not aerial perspective), careful re: units!!!
 * calculate using manning's and chezy's equations
 * Streams: THIS IS A MAJORRR portion of the test (draw cross section, find area of fastest velocity, meandering,oxbow lake formations, etc
 * Strahler number
 * annular drainage pattern
 * floods and flood recurrence intervals

NOW FOR STATES TESTS SPECIFICALLY:

know triiva, like regardless of what your topics are, make sure you know the tallest, smallest, deepest, largest, longest, whatever about your geographic features. or if you have like volcanoes or something, know re: trivia/history and stuff

Also, make sure that you and your partner know an equal amount of knowledge for the test. For example, this year at nationals, a big portion of the test focused on rivers. However, since only one of us knew this entire section very well, we wasted some time trying to find sheets that we knew the information to. So, try to be very organized with your sheets as you take the test. Make sure you use all sheets that are given to you.

ALSO: use past tests as references because they are an accurate representation as to what the legit test is like