Mountains from Space By Ronna Voorsanger

Topic: Remote sensing Type of Web activity: Web quiz Materials / Software needed: Computer and Web browser Grade Level: 6-12 Time involved: One class period Created on: August 6, 1999 Updated: November 2003 The Web Science Workshop lessons were created in cooperation with the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. This site developed and maintained by Deborah Hunt and Eric Muller. 3601 Lyon St. San Francisco, CA 94123 ©The Exploratorium

The fun begins: Look at the pictures taken by satellites of four famous mountains. Your job is to match the images with the mountains' names. Warning: False color keys are different for each picture.    Your choices: Mt. Kilimanjaro, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Mt. St. Helens, or Mt. Godwin Austen-K2 HINTS: MT. KILIMANJARO - Snow is turquoise blue. Bare ground is tomato red. Vegetation is slime green. MT. ST. HELENS - Area destroyed by volcanic explosion is thunder blue. Forested areas are blood red. MT. GODWIN AUSTEN-K2 - Vegetation is dried blood red .Glaciers are snake green! Clouds are white. CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS - Fog in valleys between the peaks of the mountains is smog brown. Snow on the mountain peaks is white. Vegetation along the sides of the mountains is dead leaf brown. answers