This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.
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How much do you know about the frozen poles of our home planet?
This mini lesson helps students visualize how the Hydrosphere and Cryosphere interact to produce changes in land and sea ice.
Students connect day/night and seasonal cycles with albedo in the Arctic region.
In this activity, students will learn about sea ice and land ice. They will observe ice melting on a solid surface near a body of water and ice melting in a body of water.
Students examine the two time series images to determine the differences between seasonal ice melt over water versus land.
The activities in this guide will help students understand variations in environmental parameters by examining connections among different phenomena measured on local, regional and global scales.
This graphic organizer may be used to help students analyze the processes and components of Earth System phenomena.
Students develop and test a hypothesis about how albedo affects temperature.