Students will review the NASA Space Place video, "Tectonic Forces", and answer questions about tectonic plates.
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Review this page to learn about the background of volcanoes and their eruptions.
An urban heat island is a phenomenon that is best described when a city experiences much warmer temperatures than in nearby rural areas. The sun’s heat and light reach the city and the country in the same way. The difference in temperature between urban and less-developed rural areas has to do with how well the surfaces in each environment absorb and hold heat.
Students examine satellite images of an island before and after a volcanic eruption to determine the impact of the eruption.
Students analyze surface air temperature anomalies to identify change with respect to different latitudes across the world.
Students can interact with NASA data to build a custom visualizations of local, regional, or global plant growth patterns over time, using the Earth System Data Explorer to generate plots of satellite data as they develop models of this phenomenon.