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This
chapter
describes
the
technique
of
preparing
latitude-longitude
based
data
so
that
it
can
be
imported
into
a
geographic
information
system
(GIS).
It
describes
the
steps
to
create
a
map
to
display
data
and
guides
users
through
some
basic
geographic
analyses.
The
focus
of
the
chapter?s
case
study
is
earthquake
prediction.
Users
download
and
format
near
real-time
and
historical
earthquake
data
from
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Scientists
have
studied
the
physical
properties
of
clouds
and
have
developed
instruments
onboard
satellites
to
characterize
the
types
of
clouds
they
see
below.
Some
satellites
have
instruments
that
allow
them
to
measure
rainfall
as
well.
For
this
lesson,
students
will
hypothesize
what
types
of
clouds
they
believe
will
create
the
most
precipitation
(rainfall)
over
Nashville,
TN.
Students
use
the
Live
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The
purpose
of
this
resource
is
to
understand
what
causes
the
Earth's
seasons
with
a
focus
on
the
Earth's
tilt
and
spherical
shape.
Students
learn
how
sunlight
spreads
over
the
Earth
at
different
times
of
the
year,
emphasizing
the
solstices
and
the
equinoxes.
Students
investigate
the
effect
of
the
Earth.s
tilt
on
the
spread
of
sunlight
by
modeling
different
tilts
using
a
three-dimensional
polyhedron
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The
purpose
of
this
resource
is
to
further
students'
understanding
of
the
causes
of
seasonal
change
using
visualizations
to
compare
the
effects
of
incoming
solar
energy
in
the
two
hemispheres.
The
class
reviews
global
visualizations
of
incoming
sunlight
and
surface
temperature
and
discusses
seasonal
change.
Students
use
the
visualizations
to
support
inquiry
on
the
differences
in
seasonal
change
in
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Discovering
Plate
Boundaries
is
based
on
5
world
maps
containing
earthquake,
volcano,
topography,
satellite
gravity,
and
seafloor
age
data.
The
novel
aspect
of
the
exercise
is
the
"jigsaw"
manner
in
which
student
groups
access
the
maps
and
use
them
to
discover,
classify,
and
describe
plate
boundary
types.
The
exercise
is
based
only
on
observation
and
description,
which
makes
it
useful
at
a
wide
variety
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In
this
activity,
students
will
design
experiments
to
gain
some
understanding
of
the
feeding
rates
of
Rotifers
and/
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In
this
activity,
students
will
explore
how
energy
is
distributed
at
the
surface
of
the
earth
in
both
space
and
time.
Using
data
sets
collected
from
Black
Rock
Forest,
an
instrumented
education
and
research
forest
near
West
Point,
New
York,
they
will
investigate
variations
in
hourly
solar
energy
influx
and
daily
average
solar
radiation.
They
will
make
observations
from
the
data,
interpret
it,
and
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This
activity
introduces
students
to
the
basic
laws
of
radiation
that
apply
to
the
sun-Earth-atmosphere
system,
the
Stefan-Boltzmann
Law
and
Wien's
Displacement
Law.
In
the
first
part
of
the
activity
,
they
will
use
these
laws
to
calculate
the
average
irradiance
of
the
sun
and
its
total
emitted
power,
as
well
as
the
wavelength
of
peak
emission
of
sunlight
and
the
earth's
irradiance
at
a
ground
temperatue
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The Stefan-Boltzmann Law is a fundamental law of physics. In this lesson, students will use this law and the near-ground air temperature to compute the hourly irradiance emitted by the surface of Earth. Then comparisons will be made with actual observations of this variable, called upwelling terrestrial radiation.
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This
lesson
is
designed
to
provide
students
an
understanding
of
the
extent
to
which
radiative
energy
heats
and
cools
the
surface
of
Earth
on
a
daily
basis.
Students
will
learn
to
calculate
the
total
amount
of
incoming
and
outgoing
radiation
over
a
day.
They
will
learn
to
determine
how
balanced
the
radiative
system
is
over
a
particular
location
and
try
to
determine
whether
the
surface
is
in
radiative
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