Students will analyze a pie chart (circle graph) showing the distribution of different parts of the Earth system's absorption and reflection of energy.
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Students learn how to estimate the "energy efficiency" of photosynthesis, or the amount of energy that plants absorb for any given location on Earth. This is the ratio of the amount of energy stored to the amount of light energy absorbed and is used to evaluate and model photosynthesis efficiency.
Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective
Students identify patterns and describe the relationship between chlorophyll concentration and incoming shortwave radiation.
My NASA Data has recently released several new resources, StoryMaps, for use in educational settings.
Explore the energy and matter cycles found within the Earth System.
Earth is a system of systems.
NASA visualizers take data – numbers, codes – and turn them into animations people can see and quickly understand.
This lesson is taken from NASA's Phytopia: Discovery of the Marine Ecosystem written in partnership with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science with funding from the National Science Foundation.
The Earth System Satellite Images help students observe and analyze global Earth and environmental data, understand the relationship among different environmental variables, and explore how the data change seasonally and over longer timescales.