Resources

A nice "blue planet" photo from space
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/choices/earth1.htm

One of the famous "earthrise" images from the moon (in this case from Apollo 8), showing the lighted portion of earth as blue and white from ocean and clouds.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/AS8/10074963.jpg

A photograph from Apollo 4 showing the earth about half in darkness. The light portion is almost entirely blue water and white clouds.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/AS4/10074815.jpg

Images of the earth as though you were seeing it from the moon, sun, or an orbiting satellite, no portion of the earth in shadow or obscured by clouds.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth

climate, vegetation., the color landform atlas of the U.S. site
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

vegetation maps, greenness maps (produced from satellite images) at the forest service's wildfire assessment site.
http://www.fs.fed.us/land/wfas/

http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html

Maps of the World, glossary of map terms; Grolier Educational, Danbury, CT

Make it Work! Rivers: World Book, Chicago, 1996

Make it Work! Oceans: World Books, Chicago, 1997

Images:

pg5_Earth.jpg

pg6_Mediterranean.jpg

pg8_chesapeakebay.jpg

pg10_Africa.gif

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