Examine (daytime) surface temperature and solar radiation received at locations found near similar latitudes using NASA Data.
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Students review the NASA video showing biosphere data over the North Atlantic Ocean as a time series animation displaying a decade of phytoplankton blooms and answer questions.
Students identify patterns in chlorophyll concentration data to formulate their explanations of phytoplankton distribution.
This lesson introduces the Earth system science spheres through model making and discussion.
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.