Resources

Patagonia http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/pio/srl/sirc/srl-patagonia.gif

Glacial changes, work done by NASA geographer, Dorothy Hall http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/GLACIER.BAY/glacierbay.story.html

Landsat image north of Vicksburg, MS, showing Mississippi river floodplain http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/RPIF/LANDSAT/LIMG/24_37.gif

Educator's guide to Earth&emdash;The Ever-Changing Planet, images of Earth to identify and illustrate ways that Earth changes http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/ootw/1999/ootw_990428/ob990428.html

Western Hemisphere earthquake zone http://www.nasm.si.edu/earthtoday/quakelg.htm

Investigation Images

Figure 1: Mountainous coastline
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev12/ev1247_PIA02716_md.jpg

Figure 2: Coastline
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev51/ev5144_S2000277172549_md.jpg

Figure 3: Composite of a flood
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/flood/flood_3.html

Figure 4: St. Louis in 1988
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/world/graphics/flood1.jpg

Figure 5: St. Louis in 1993
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/world/graphics/flood2.jpg

Figure 6: Aral Sea
http://edc.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/Aral/Aral

Images:

pg6_California.jpg

pg7_EastCoast.jpg

pg8_Geenland.jpg

pg12_LakeChad1973.jpg

Literature Connections

Make it Work! Rivers: World Book, Chicago, 1996
Make it Work! Oceans: World Books, Chicago, 1997
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen
The Big River by Bruce Hiscock

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