CHAPTER 18 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 18.1 This placemark is pinned to a sand dune in the Sahara, in Algeria.
PROBLEM 18.2 These sand dunes clearly show the direction of the prevailing wind.
PROBLEM 18.3 This massive granite outcrop, called Ben Amera, rises out of the sand in Mauritania.
PROBLEM 18.4 Just to the east of Ben Amera, a gently tilting plateau rises from the desert floor.
PROBLEM 18.5 This linear mountain ridge is composed of steeply tilting sedimentary rocks.
PROBLEM 18.6 This placemark lands on the Colorado Plateau.
PROBLEM 18.7 This placemark also lands on the Colorado Plateau.
PROBLEM 18.8 This placemark also lands on the Colorado Plateau.
PROBLEM 18.9 From 92 km in altitude, a significant portion of the western United States can be seen. Notice the north-
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PROBLEM 18.10 This placemark falls on several fan-
PROBLEM 18.11 This lake is found in the Great Basin of Nevada, an internal drainage basin.
PROBLEM 18.12 This placemark visits a desert environment with little vegetation and brightly colored layers of deeply eroded rock.
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