Annotating landscapes

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Annotating landscapes

• How do you do it?
• What makes a good annotation?

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From labels to annotations

• A label is a single word or phrase.
• A descriptive annotation is a short paragraph
  where you write about what the landform is like.
• An explanatory annotation is where you write
  about how the landform came about.

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• Before you work with your own landscape
  photograph, follow through the example on the
  following slides.
• The first slide uses single words - labels (they
  can be adjectives).
• The second slide adds descriptive annotations.
• The third slide develops explanatory annotations.

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Kamchatka Cones labels
Conical
Cold
Concave
Crater
Crinkly
Crisp
Photograph courtesy of Volcano World
http//volcano.und.nodak.edu/
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Kamchatka cones - descriptions
This conical feature is made of ash and cinder
erupting from the small crater at the top.
Kamchatka has very cold winters and cool summers
in the tundra climate zone of Russia.
Concave means the slopes gets steeper as you get
towards the top.
This crater is about 2 km across.
The crinkly lava has erupted from the side of the
cone.
The crisp snow on the edge of the crater has not
melted whereas in the crater it has.
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Kamchatka cones - explanations
This cone is a newer volcano forming in the old
crater. The volcano erupts often at this vent The
ash erupts and falls down the side building up
the cone.
Kamchatka, Russia has a cold tundra climate
because it is at high latitude and on the east
side of Asia where a cold ocean current flows.
As the ash falls, it slips down quickly at the
top and more slowly near the base forming a
concave slope.
This crater is where an older volcano exploded.
The crinkly lava has erupted from the side of the
cone because the magma is closer to the surface.
At the edge of the crater, there is little heat
from underground so the snow doesnt melt.
Photograph courtesy of Volcano World
http//volcano.und.nodak.edu/
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Hawaiian-type Eruption
What is this lava like?
Runny
Stringy
Flowing
Shiny
Smooth
Like black double cream
Pa hoe hoe
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Acknowledgements

• Photograph courtesy of Volcano World
  http//volcano.und.nodak.edu/