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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Albedo and Global Warming

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In this interactive activity adapted from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, learn about Earth's albedo (the ratio of reflected vs. incident solar radiation), how pollution alters albedo, and how ice-albedo feedback may accelerate global warming.

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Concepts

energy, light, solar energy, global warming

Additional Tags

earth syste, earth system, environment, human impact and global changes, reflection and absorption, sources, sun, transmission through different materials, teachers' domain, wgbh

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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