Earth From Space: video worksheets, differentiated

See also: Cold-War Climate Dividend: Video worksheets, differentiated.

A dazzling and beautiful film. Various satellites, many spectacular phenomena shown and explained. Including the shadow of a solar eclipse, polar eclipse, 16 sunrises and sunsets a day for ISS passengers. Northern Lights, NASA’s astronaut radiation protocols. Chelyabinsk meteor. meteor showers. Images across the electromagnetic spectrum. The frozen River Dnieper. Hurricanes: Ida, Laura, Dorian’s 30-mile-wide eye. Active volcanoes: Hunga Tonga-Hunga’s effect on the ionosphere and mesosphere, Raikoke 2019, the umbrella effect. 2009 Sarychev Volcano pyroclastic flow. Ice-sheet monitoring: Petermann Glacier, Petermann Ice Island; Baffin Bay. Sediments in Kazakhstan’s Delta Oasis; Lake Balkhash starting to shrink. Wildfires :2019-2020 Australian bushfire smoke impacting Chile and Argentina. 2020 Western United States fire season – composite and IR pictures. 2018 California Camp Fire. Saharan dust blown to Brazil, depositing phosphorus. Urbanisation: the growth of Qatar. Light pollution in Japan and China.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s BE AMAZED channel for “Amazing Events Seen from Space”.

16 questions for the 30-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.