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What don't most people understand about the world?
It is shaped by forces more dynamic and intertwined than we ever imagined.
Essential Questions
1-What are these hidden forces that rule our world?
2- How are the oceans, the continents, the atmosphere, and even the sun bound
together?
3- How do all these affect all living things?
Essential Question #1
How can sand storms in the Sahara desert transform the Amazon rain forest over 5,000
miles away?
Essential Question #2
In the frigid ocean beneath Antartica, how can a vast undersea waterfall, 500 times
bigger than Niagara Falls, lead to a gigantic feeding frenzy near the equator?
Essential Question #3
How can warm water streaming past the coast of Africa trigger a weather catastrophe
half a world away in the southern United States?
How have scientists begun to answer these and other essential questions about
the earth?
Using a network of satellites orbiting high above the earth
For the first time in human history, what can we begin to understand?
How earth, fire, wind and water join together to create the dynamic environments that
shaped life in all its forms
What has the interaction of all these components done?
Their interaction is what has created the environment, diversity, the kind of life we see
on earth today
What has allowed scientists to understand our planet as never before?
Astonishing images created from a wealth of new information from satellites
Since humans first ventured into space, what have been some of the greatest
gifts of exploration?
The new views of the earth
What is much of the earth's surface transform by?
Humans
When seen from space, what do scientist realize?
The earth is one, huge system, all linked through the atmosphere and the oceans-
rolling it's way around the sun
What is it that shapes earth's dynamic face?
What are the essential ingredients and how do they combine to generate and
sustain all life?
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What don't most people understand about the world?
It is shaped by forces more dynamic and intertwined than we ever imagined.
Essential Questions
1-What are these hidden forces that rule our world?
2- How are the oceans, the continents, the atmosphere, and even the sun bound
together?
3- How do all these affect all living things?
Essential Question #1
How can sand storms in the Sahara desert transform the Amazon rain forest over 5,000
miles away?
Essential Question #2
In the frigid ocean beneath Antartica, how can a vast undersea waterfall, 500 times
bigger than Niagara Falls, lead to a gigantic feeding frenzy near the equator?
Essential Question #3
How can warm water streaming past the coast of Africa trigger a weather catastrophe
half a world away in the southern United States?
How have scientists begun to answer these and other essential questions about
the earth?
Using a network of satellites orbiting high above the earth
For the first time in human history, what can we begin to understand?
How earth, fire, wind and water join together to create the dynamic environments that
shaped life in all its forms
What has the interaction of all these components done?
Their interaction is what has created the environment, diversity, the kind of life we see
on earth today
What has allowed scientists to understand our planet as never before?
Astonishing images created from a wealth of new information from satellites
Since humans first ventured into space, what have been some of the greatest
gifts of exploration?
The new views of the earth
What is much of the earth's surface transform by?
Humans
When seen from space, what do scientist realize?
The earth is one, huge system, all linked through the atmosphere and the oceans-
rolling it's way around the sun
What is it that shapes earth's dynamic face?
What are the essential ingredients and how do they combine to generate and
sustain all life?
