Focus on moving slowly and allowing students to notice details and ask questions about the images. It's not about guessing or jumping to hypotheses! It's about wondering. (I recommend setting the Google Slides to *fullscreen* first!)
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You’re looking down at the islands of Cabo Verde or Cape Verde, a country in the Atlantic Ocean, near the west coast of Africa. This swirls are called Von Karman Vortices. They occur because one island’s volcano is tall enough to disrupt the air as it passes by. You can also see areas with no clouds at all, called Rain Shadows. This phenomenon is also caused by the height of certain islands’ volcanoes. The clouds get stuck on one side of the volcano, leading to a wet and dry side. Because of this, even a small island can have a diverse set of creatures living on it, adapted to the dry or wet sides of the island. Read more from NASA here and here.
