CHAPTER 3 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 3.1 Activate the overlay in this folder. Florida is featured. The placemark points to a large cloud.
PROBLEM 3.2 Deactivate all previous overlays and activate the overlay in this folder. This problem features the water vapor content of the atmosphere for the month of October 2012. Dark blue regions have the highest water vapor content. The dark blotches are areas of no data due to persistent cloud cover.
PROBLEM 3.3 Keep the water vapor overlay from the previous problem activated. This placemark shows another area with high atmospheric water vapor content.
PROBLEM 3.4 Deactivate all previous overlays and activate the overlay in this folder. This placemark shows a pattern of linear clouds that crisscross the image.
PROBLEM 3.5 Deactivate all previous overlays and activate the overlay in this folder. The placemark points to Lake Baikal in central Russia. It is the deepest (1,642 m or 5,387 ft), oldest (25 million years), and largest lake by volume in the world (holding 20% of all liquid surface freshwater). Because of its northern location, great volume, and great depth, it is a cold lake. Notice that the lake is covered with clouds in this image.
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PROBLEM 3.6 Deactivate all previous overlays and activate the overlay in this folder. This placemark is in the Yellow Sea between South Korea and China.
PROBLEM 3.7 Deactivate all previous overlays and activate the overlay in this folder. This image shows the Rio Negro in Brazil near where it enters the Amazon River in the Amazon rainforest.