Explore the interactive data for “Vital Signs of the Planet” on NASA’s Global Climate Change: NASA’s Eyes on the Earth website. It will give you a sense of the scale of change we have seen in our climate system.
Click on the tabs across the bottom to see graphical and time series representations of data that show trends for changes over time for Carbon Dioxide, Global Temperature, Arctic Ice Minimum, Land Ice, Sea Level, and Forest Cover. Complete the table below by considering the data source for the information, the length of time the data covers, what is being measured, and what the data suggests. Make sure to look at both the graph and the visualization Time Series for each data set (if available).
ANswer the questions provided in the file below
Part 2: River Discharge
You will complete the first part of a virtual lab called River Discharge, which may be accessed at the following link:
http://www.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualRiver/
Click on River Discharge. Work through the lab and answer the questions below. The page pertaining to each question is noted, but you must successfully progress through each page in the lab before it will allow you to proceed.
