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.
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:
We would like to figure out the following:
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.