USGS TerraWeb for Kids: Sonar Puzzle Pieces

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It is a <b>sonar strip</b> collected by a fish towed by a ship. You can move the scroll bar up and down to see how long it is!</font> </p> <p> <font color="#993399">This sonar strip was shrunk down to fit better on your computer screen - originally the image was <b>10 times longer and wider!</b> If we printed it out before we shrunk it, it would have been over 8 feet long!!! The strip shows an area of the land underwater about five miles long.</font> </p> <p> <font color="#993399"><b>2) Put the Puzzle Together!</b></font> </p> <p> <font color="#993399">The images below show where the strip fits in the big puzzle we put together. This is no ordinary puzzle, though. To make the strip be in the correct location, we had to stretch it, twist it, and push it into place with <b>computer software</b>. This would be sort of like making a jigsaw puzzle piece fit into the right place by cutting it with scissors and pounding it with a hammer until it fit -- just not as noisy!</font> </p> <p> <font color="#993399"><b>3) Where Does Our Sonar Strip Belong in the Puzzle?</b></font> </p> <p> <font color="#993399">This image has numbers and arrows matching the numbers on the left side of the strip to show you where different points ended up when we were done with our sonar puzzle, which is called a <b>mosaic</b>. Scroll the strip up and down to find the numbers and match them to the numbers below.</font> </p> <p></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><img height="171" width="400" src="stripmosaicLBL.gif"><p></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><font color="#993399"><b>4) Enjoy the Finished Puzzle!</b></font> <p> <font color="#993399">This image has a red box to show you where the above image is located in our finished sonar mosaic. <b>Click the image to visit this area on the Monterey Bay Underwater Image Map!</b></font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <form target="_parent" action="http://TerraWeb.wr.usgs.gov/web-cgi/kidswebvista.cgi" method="post"> <input height="106" width="200" border="0" align="absmiddle" name="Back" src="stripthumb.gif" type="image"><input value="MontereySonar" name="the_Region" type="hidden"><input value="mosaic" name="imgType" type="hidden"><input value="0" name="size" type="hidden"><input value="27" name="res" type="hidden"><input value="300" name="CurWidth" type="hidden"><input value="120" name="CurHeight" type="hidden"><input value="300" name="origW" type="hidden"><input value="120" name="origH" type="hidden"><input value="926" name="CurX" type="hidden"><input value="678" name="CurY" type="hidden"><input value="284" name="thumbRes" type="hidden"><input value="145" name="thumbRow" type="hidden"><input value="200" name="thumbCol" type="hidden"><input value="-1" name="pallette" type="hidden"><input value="0" name="dev" type="hidden"><input value="27" name="res1" type="hidden"><input value="1521" name="rows1" type="hidden"><input value="2098" name="cols1" type="hidden"><input value="1" name="grids1" type="hidden"><input value="9" name="res2" type="hidden"><input value="4561" name="rows2" type="hidden"><input value="6293" name="cols2" type="hidden"><input value="1" name="grids2" type="hidden"><input value="3" name="res3" type="hidden"><input value="13683" name="rows3" type="hidden"><input value="18878" name="cols3" type="hidden"><input value="0" name="grids3" type="hidden"><input value="1" name="res4" type="hidden"><input value="41048" name="rows4" type="hidden"><input value="56632" name="cols4" type="hidden"><input value="-1" name="grids4" type="hidden"><input value="150" name="Image.x" type="hidden"><input value="60" name="Image.y" type="hidden"> </form> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <br> <table> <tr> <td><img alt="-----------------------------------" height="32" width="400" src="../line.gif"><br> <a target="_parent" href="../"><img align="absmiddle" alt="Kids' Site! 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