1. What is going on in Kazakhstan?
The Aral Sea
What is going on in Kazakhstan?

2. The Aral Sea, 1973 What color represents water?
What color represents land?
What percentage of the picture do you estimate is water?

3. The Aral Sea, 1973 to 1987 How has the location changed?
What percent of the picture do you estimate to be water?

4. The Aral Sea, 1973-2000 How has the location changed?
What percent of the picture do you now estimate to be water?
How many bodies of water is there now?
What do you think is causing this to happen?

5. Pictures courtesy of:
NASA’s “Visible Earth” project