Satellite Images Look carefully at each slide and answer the questions on your answer sheet. 1.What is the blue feature in the center of the image? 2. Explain how this feature formed? Slide 1 Slide 2Compare slides 2 and 3 Slide 33. How are slides 2&3 alike? 4. How are slides 2&3 different? 5. Which slide shows an older river? How do you know? Slide 46. This is a picture of the Syrian desert, why is there so much vegetation in the picture? Slide 5 Compare slides 5,6,7 Slide 6 Compare slides 5,6,7 Slide 7 The feature shown at the mouth of each river in the three slides is called a delta or an alluvial fan. 7. How are these features formed? Slide 8Compare slides 8 &9 Slide 9Slide 8 and 9 are both showing mountain ranges. 8. Which slide show s the higher, steeper mountain range? 9. What has caused the mountains to erode or become less steep? Slide 10Compare slides 10 &11 Slide 11Both of these slides show glaciers. 10. What are glaciers? 11. How could satellite images be used to study glaciers and their movement? Slide 12Compare slides 12 &13 Slide 13 Both slides show deserts. 12. What features do you see that these deserts have in common? Slide 14Compare Slides 14 & 15 Slide 15The red areas are showing forest fires. 13. How could satellite images be used to study forest fires and their effect on an area? Slide 16Compare slides 16 &17 Slide 17 Both slides show volcanoes. 14. How are the volcanoes different in the two slides? In slide 17 the bottom left volcano is Mt. Saint Helen in Washington. 15. Why is there no vegetation around the volcano? Slide 18 Compare slides 18 and 19 Slide 19 Both slides show areas with agriculture. (Farms) 16.How could satellite images be used to study agriculture in different areas? 17. Slide 19 shows the Sahara desert. How could there be farms here? Critical Writing: Describe the most important benefits of satellites and satellite imagery. Are images from space always helpful? What are the limitations of satellite images?