Students will analyze a graph showing the variation of energy imbalance on Earth over the year along different latitudinal zones and answer the questions that follow.
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This mini lesson focuses on Earth's Energy Budget and the surface effects that occur in Central Australia. Students review a line graph depicting net radiation in Central Australia related to a multiyear drought from 2002 - 2009 and answer the questions.
Students connect day/night and seasonal cycles with albedo in the Arctic region.
Students watch a visualization video and answer questions on the potential of increasing megadroughts in the southwest and central United States from 1950-2095 using models created by soil moisture data.
Students analyze a graph that illustrates the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures.
Students examine the two time series images to determine the differences between seasonal ice melt over water versus land.
This lesson contains a card sort activity that challenges students to predict relative albedo values of common surfaces.
Explore using units in calculations with the Leaf Area Index (LAI). LAI is a ratio that describes the number of square meters of leaves per square meter of available land surface. Because of the units in the ratio, it is dimensionless.
Students will analyze the monthly seasonal chlorophyll concentration images in our global oceans for the four different months of 2024, and then answer the following questions.
Students compare climographs for two locations to determine the most likely months to expect the emergence of mosquitoes in each location.