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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

PROBLEM 17.8 This placemark falls on another moraine near Passu.

PROBLEM 17.9 This placemark falls on the village of Passu.

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

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

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

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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