Advanced Activities are designed to make you apply the skills you learned in this lesson to solve an environmental problem and explore additional resources related to lesson topics.
Directions:
In the Step-by-Step portion of the lesson, we were mainly concerned with three land cover categories: developed, agriculture, and forest. We are also interested in how wetlands have changed between 1978 and 2005. We are particularly interested in the land cover categories below:
- 1978 Land Cover Categories: "Forested Wetland" and "Non-forested Wetland"
- 2005 Land Cover Categories: "Forested Wetlands" and "Emergent Wetlands"
We would like to figure out the following:
- How many counties contain wetlands in 1978 and 2005?
- Which locations have the most wetlands in 1978 and 2005?
Note: You may want to read the related quiz questions within the Lesson 5 Quiz before completing the activity so you know what information to look out for.