View a Green Down Animation
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/EVI_LAI_FPAR/

1.  What types of patterns or changes in vegetation do you see?
         Which part shows Green Up?  Green Down?
 

2.  Where do you notice the most drastic changes in color throughout the year?
 

3.  What regions of the earth do not seem to change much throughout the year?
 

4.  What do the different colors mean?
         Green?         Brown?       White?
 

5.  Look at the black regions at the north and south poles. What do you causes the black color?
 

6.  What do you think causes the green-up or brown-down of the continents on the satellite image?
 

7.  If you were an animal, when do you think it would be easiest to find food - when the ground is green, brown, or white?
 
 
 
 

Resource:
Green Up, Green Down by Dr. Kerri Vierling
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:_NS2wgamwBoC:www.tandl.vt.edu/esc/rev/curriculum/Learning_Modules/Greenlinks/global_greenup/global_green_up_LP.pdf+Green+Up&hl=en&start=30&ie=UTF-8