CHAPTER 17 Exploring with Google Earth

CHAPTER 17 Exploring with Google Earth

To complete these problems, first read the chapter. When you are finished, go to LaunchPad and open the Exploring with Google Earth file for this chapter. Click on the “Workbook Problems” folder to “fly” to each of the problems listed below and answer the questions. Be sure to keep your “Borders and Labels” layer activated. Refer to Appendix 4 if you need help using Google Earth.

PROBLEM 17.1 Sharp, narrow ridges such as this one in Montana are common in mountainous areas that have been eroded by glaciers.

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1. What is the name of this landform?

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2. What is the name of the low saddle on the same ridge 800 m to the west?

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3. Pan around. Inspect the base of the landform on each side. What is the name of the two bowl-shaped amphitheaters carved on the north flank of this feature?

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PROBLEM 17.2 This boulder, named Yeager Rock, weighs some 400 tons. It lies on the Waterville Plateau, in eastern Washington State. The large boulders visible here are evidence of the ice sheet that covered this region as recently as 12,000 years ago.

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1. What is the name for large boulders such as these?

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PROBLEM 17.3 This landform consists of a long, winding ridge of glaciofluvial deposits. Notice at this placemark how the road jogs north as it crosses the landform.

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1. What is the name of this landform?

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2. How was it formed?

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3. Why does the road jog north as it crosses the ridge?

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4. How wide is this landform just north of the road?

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5. About how long is it?

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PROBLEM 17.4 The glacier placemarked here is found at 80 degrees north latitude. This island belongs to Norway.

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1. What type of glacier is this?

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2. What is the name of this island?

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3. How far away is this placemark from the North Pole? (To find the North Pole, pull down the View menu and activate Grid, or press Control-L.)

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PROBLEM 17.5 This type of glacier forms when a glacier spills onto a flat plain. This particular one is the largest of its kind in the world.

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1. What type of glacier is this?

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2. What is its maximum width?

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3. Zoom out. Where is this glacier?

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PROBLEM 17.6 At this placemark in Norway, many glaciers are growing because they are fed more snowfall by warmer (but still freezing) air.

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1. What type of glacier is this?

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2. What type of lake is found at this glacier’s toe?

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PROBLEM 17.7 The glaciers near the small village of Passu in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range produce an enormous amount of till that forms moraines.

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1. Why type of moraine does this placemark fall on?

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PROBLEM 17.8 This placemark falls on another moraine near Passu.

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1. Why type of moraine does this placemark fall on?

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PROBLEM 17.9 This placemark falls on the village of Passu.

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1. What glacial landform is the village of Passu built on?

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PROBLEM 17.10 This is K2 in the Karakoram Range, the second highest point on Earth.

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PROBLEM 17.11 This placemark features elongated landforms in Quebec, Canada.

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PROBLEM 17.12 This placemark shows summer meltwater lakes and streams on the Greenland ice sheet.

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2. Through what feature can these surface lakes drain?

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PROBLEM 17.13 This placemark is pinned to Milford Sound in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. This area was strongly modified by glacial erosion during the last glacial maximum, when sea level was some 85 m (280 ft) lower than today. Although it is not visible in Google Earth, Sterling Falls spills over the cliff face at the location of the placemark.

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1. What is the name of this U-shaped valley that feeds into Milford Sound?

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2. Zoom out and tilt around to get a better sense of the scale of Milford Sound. What is the name for the U-shaped valley that has been flooded by seawater and now makes up Milford Sound?

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