WETMAAP Skill 1
Golden Meadow - Element 4

Skill 1:  Map Use
Element 4:  Comparison of Aerial Photography and Photographic Essay

Materials:

            1995 Colored Habitat map overlay

            1994 1:24,000 scale Golden Meadow/Golden Meadow Farms/Bay Courant/Mink Bayou Topographic Quadrangle

            Photographic Essay

            Ultra-fine black marker pen

            Magnifying glass

Exercise:

1.   Review Golden Meadow Photographic Essay.  Note locations of each picture taken and the habitat description for each photo.

2.   Using the 1995 Aerial Photograph, the 1995 Colored Habitat overlay, and the Golden Meadow Photographic Essay, identify habitats locations on         the 1994 1:24,000 scale Golden Meadow/Golden Meadow Farms/Bay Courant/Mink  BayouTopographic Quadrangle.

3.   Use the topographic map at the front of the photographic essay to match a picture from the Photographic Essay with each of the habitats on the         overlay.  Write the picture number from the photographic essay that corresponds to the one of each of the habitat type.   Write the name of the          identified habitat near the corresponding picture number.