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This page is part of a larger USGS project called Water Science for Schools. This section covers different water-use topics and categories of water-use. A Spanish translation is available.
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This lesson will connect the idea of the tilt and orbit of the earth (changing of seasons) with monthly changes in snow/
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This
booklet
provides
a
brief
introduction
to
the
concept
of
plate
tectonics
and
complements
the
visual
and
written
information
in
This
Dynamic
Planet,
a
map
published
in
1994
by
the
U.S.
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
and
the
Smithsonian
Institution.
The
booklet
highlights
some
of
the
people
and
discoveries
that
advanced
the
development
of
the
theory
and
traces
its
progress
since
its
proposal.
Although
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The purpose of this resource is to familiarize students with modeling as it relates to remote sensing and digitized images. Students will use the symbolic map created in the beginning activity to produce a digitized image and begin to see why ground verification of satellite data is necessary.
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The purpose of the resource is to introduce students to Landsat images and how to identify the land cover types within those images.
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The purpose of the resource is to develop hypotheses about which environmental factors are most important to plants.
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The purpose of the resource is to determine the major land cover type at a Land Cover Sample Site.
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The purpose of this resource is to use a land cover type map to make environmentally sound decisions.
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The purpose of the resource is to investigate changes in the major land cover types of Study Sites by examining Landsat satellite images acquired years apart.
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The purpose of this resource is to select 15 km x 15 km Land Cover Sample Sites.
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