No. 4
Wednesday, August 24, 2016.

Written Test FinishedThe written test of the 10th International Earth
Science Olympiad started yesterday morning. At
9:00, the students arrived at Mie University
where they have written tests. They entered in
the examination room at 9:20. Since a question
sheet was mistakenly distributed, the start of theTheme 1 test and the following Theme 2 test has
been delayed for 30 minutes. All written tests
finished at 14:35 and afterwards the students
departed the university and visited Mie-Mu (MiePrefectural Museum). They have practical test
today at Mie University.

Students at MieMu

Students visited Mie-Mu (The Museum of Mie Prefecture)
after the written test. Mie-Mu was built in 2014 and its freshexhibition style is well known nationwide. Students enjoyedwatching specimens such as the complete skeleton ofStegodon miensis, a Pliocene elephant found in the prefecture.

Today's Schedule
Students
06:00 - 07:00 Breakfast
07:20
Departure(Group A)(Group B)
08:20 - 11:50 Practical Test 08:20 - 11:15 Practical Test
Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 16:20 Practical Test 13:10 - 16:05 Practical Test
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner (Rotation)
19:30 - 21:00 Explanation of International Team
Field Investigation (ITFI)

Weather Forecast
Today (24)max 31 ºC
chance of rain 30%
cloudy, thunder shower in some place

Students withStegodon miensis

Mentors and Observers (Alterable)
07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast (Room Ise)
08:30
Departure
09:30 - 12:30 Cultural Trip (Visit Ise Jingu)
Lunch around Ise Jingu
12:30
Departure
14:45 - 17:00 Cultural Trip (Visit Iga Ueno)
17:00 - 19:00 Dinner (Room Ise)
19:00 - 21:00 Jury Meeting 2 (Room Aoi)

Thursday (25)

Friday (26)cloudy, partly raincloudy, partly sunnymin 26 ºC
max 31 ºC
chance of rain 40%

min 25 ºC
max 31 ºC
chance of rain 40%

Mie Prefecture Declaration
Student will announce the “Mie PrefectureDeclaration” at the closing ceremony of the 10thInternational Earth Science Olympiad in Mie
next Saturday. The declaration contains
recognition of the present status of the Earthenvironment and how to cope with them. The
Governor of Mie Prefecture requested theparticipating students to draft the declaration.
On Monday evening, a sketch of the declaration
was presented to the students and they
discussed enthusiastically to make the final
version of the declaration draft.
Make our future
better!

Today's QuizMedal

Do you know the annual amount of precipitation inyour region? Precipitation means water that falls on
the ground under gravity, such as rain, snow, hail andothers. Owase, a city in the southern part of Mie
prefecture is one of the places that have the highest
annual amount of precipitation in Japan: almost
double of the Japan's average. The question is: Whichof the following numbers is closest to the annual
precipitation in Owase?

According to the IESO regulations, students in the top
10% of all participants receive a gold medal. In mostcases, 10% of all students have fractional points,
which should be rounded. Since exactly 100 students
are participating, there will be 10 gold medal winners
in the 10th IESO (it's easy!). The number of silver
medal winners is 20 (double of the gold). Basically,
the number of bronze medal winners is 30 (triple ofthe gold). However, the top student of each team that
could not win any medal receives as well a bronze
medal.

A) 4000 mmB) 7000 mmC) 10000 mm
Free bottled water provided
in this IESO comes fromOwase, also known as apart of a UNESCO World
Heritage “Kumano Kodo” oldpilgrimage routes.

Design of the medal of the10th International EarthScience Olympiad

Editor;Kazutaka Mannen, Kentaro Tada
and Bogdan Dumitru Enescu
Publisher; Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
http://ieso2016.jp/
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