WETMAAP Skill 1
Texas City/Virginia Point: Element 4

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

Materials:

1992a Aerial Photograph with taped overlay

1:24,000 1994 Virginia Point Quadrangle

Photographic Essay

Black pen

Magnifying glass

Exercise:

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

2. Using the 1992a Aerial Photography and the Virginia Point Photographic Essay, identify habitats by comparing the location of pictures on the photograph.

3. Use the topographic map at the front of the photographic essay (showing photo locations) and the magnifying glass to identify the following habitats. On photo overlay, mark each habitat with a " + " using the black marker.

Salt marsh

Fresh marsh

Upland scrub-shrub

Open water

Agriculture/range

Urban

4. Match a picture from the Photographic Essay with each of the habitats. Write the picture number from the Photographic Essay that corresponds to the habitat type beside each habitat " + " mark. Write the name of the identified habitat near the corresponding " + " and picture number.