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PAGE PAGE 2 Copyright ? 2010 Environmental Literacy and Inquiry Working Group at Lehigh University. Modified from US EPA, US Dept. of Energy, and NASA Mission Geography materials. Copyright ? 2010 Environmental Literacy and Inquiry Working Group at Lehigh University. Modified from US EPA, US Dept. of Energy, and NASA Mission Geography materials. Urban Heat Islands On a hot, sunny day if we wear dark clothes, we feel warm. Dark colors absorb more heat than light colors. We experience rising heated air when we walk across a paved parking lot on a sunny, summer day. The heat stored in the pave