Explore and connect to the GLOBE Soils protocol bundle.
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Explore and connect to the GLOBE Urban protocol bundle.
Explore and connect to the GLOBE Rivers and Lakes protocol bundle.
The purpose of this activity is for students to create a desktop soil profile based on the biome region of the United States where your school is located.
Explore and connect to the GLOBE Oceans protocol bundle.
We often take the Biosphere, especially its plants and trees, for granted; however, this important sphere also supports almost every aspect of our lives.
This USGS activity leads students to an understanding of what remote sensing means and how researchers use it to study changes to the Earth’s surface, such as deforestation.
Check out how Dr. James Smith, Research Scientist at Biospheric Sciences Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center researches changes in the Biosphere using remote sensing techniques.
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.
Earth is a system of systems.