Students identify patterns in chlorophyll concentration data to formulate their explanations of phytoplankton distribution.
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Students will identify and describe the relationship between watersheds and phytoplankton distribution.
Helping students build their understanding of Earth's spheres and how they are connected is difficult. Review the graphics to help identify the parts of the Earth System and the processes that connect them at the local, regional, and global scales.
This graphic organizer may be used to help students analyze the processes and components of Earth System phenomena.
Students identify patterns and describe the relationship between chlorophyll concentration and incoming shortwave radiation.
Use the Earth System Data Explorer to analyze data and make a claim about which 2018 eruption was larger, Kilauea, HI or Ambae Island, Vanuatu.
In this activity, you will use an inexpensive spectrophotometer* to test how light at different visible wavelengths (blue, green, red) is transmitted, or absorbed, through four different colored water samples.