Comparing Topographical Maps to 3-Dimensional Models Activity Sheet

Title your paper "Comparing Topographical Maps to 3 Dimensional Models."

1. After watching the Mt. Shasta movie, draw a topographical map of the mountain. How do you think it was formed? Look at the DEM (digital elevation model) of Mt. Shasta, how similar was your drawing?

2. Watch the Mars Crater movie, and draw a topographical map of the craters. Look at the DEM. How similar was your drawing? From what perspective was the movie made?

3. Watch the Mars Canyon movie, you may have to view it a couple of times. Draw a topographic map of the area, try to fill in details that you can't see.

4. How could NASA use these 3-D models to study Mars?

5. What areas of the Earth are unaccessible to humans? Describe how we could use 3-D model to study them.