Objective – Identify geologic features and how they form on Earth and other planetary bodies.
What Are Satellite Images?
Your group has been given a picture. Complete the table below.
Image Description
Use descriptive words to describe your image. Do not name features or objects.
With your group, list 3‐5 useful characteristics or ways to describe features in images.
The images of Earth focus on features related to four different geologic processes that
shape the surface of our planet.
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b. __________________________________________________
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Objective – Identify geologic features and how they form on Earth and other planetary bodies.
Connections
 Before we can study and interpret images of other planets, we need to
understand what we see in satellite images of our own planet.
Big Ideas
 Science is about collecting data and using evidence to answer questions.
Participants will be doing what scientists do when analyzing images from
spacecraft – comparing what they see in the images to what they already know.
 Satellite images are taken from space, and therefore give us images of the Earth
from far above its surface.
 Major features, such as rivers, oceans, mountains, and cities are recognizable on
satellite images.
Materials
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Drawing paper
Pencil
Set of Earth Images
Large sheets of paper
Procedure
1. Draw a picture of the room. Draw it any way you like.
2. Be prepared to share the drawings to with the class.
3. Were all the pictures drawn the same way? Explain.
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4. Where would you need to be standing in order to draw the room from the different
points of view?
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Objective – Identify geologic features and how they form on Earth and other planetary bodies.
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5. Get your set of Earth images. Where would you need to be standing in order to see
the Earth from the point of view of the satellites?
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6. Identify features in each image. Complete the table below.
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Objective – Identify geologic features and how they form on Earth and other planetary bodies.
Image 4
Image 5
Image 7
Image 6
Image 8
Objective – Identify geologic features and how they form on Earth and other planetary bodies.