- 31 Mar, 2021
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GOOGLE EARTH EXERCISE
These questions are located in Map Guide 1- North, Central and South America.
What is the latitude and longitude of the Northwest corner of Nevada? Please include degrees, minutes, and seconds. ____________________________________________
What is the elevation at this location in feet? 1507 ft.
Fly to 36°32’N, 116° 55’W. In what valley am I?______________? What is the elevation in feet below sea level?______________.
Find the Island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles. Name the huge volcano on the Northwest portion of the island?_______________
What is the elevation at the top of this volcano on Martinique?__________.
Fly to the Salton Sea. Are there more farm plots on the SE edge or on the NW edge?__________
Find Plaza de la Constitucion in the center of Mexico City. If you were to walk due north a block, what famous Cathedral do you bump into?______________________________.
Fly to the Isla Martin Garcia (Timoteo Dominguez) in the Rio de la Plata river delta. Zoom in. What part of this island has human settlement, the northern or southern portion?___________________.
Fly to the following coordinates: 49°31’S, 73°21’W. The icefields I am standing in are located in what mountain chain?_______________; in what country?____________.
Fly to Quito, Ecuador. Zoom in. Move your cursor around the neighborhoods of the city (they spill to the north and south of the city center along a ridge). What is the average elevation of this city?________________________________________________.