Google Earth Exercise #6

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The Americas

North America

1. Where might I be able to get a cup of coffee near Glacier National Park (as long as it isn’t from Starbucks)? Any other place will do…..

2. Type 43.880, -103.460 into the Search box. Turn on the ‘3D Building’ layer and wait for it to load. Drop the little orange man at the pie-wedge-shaped building to the southeast. Click-drag to the left. Look up. Where are you? Exit out, turn off the 3D.

3. Type 20861 County Road 33, LaSalle, CO into the Search box. Look in the bottom left corner. The family who owns this farm (the Fritzler family) plows pictures into one of its corn fields every couple of years. The field is now plowed over while they grow a new message, but go to the small icons at the top of your screen. Choose the ‘historical imagery’ icon (it looks like a clock). Slide the imagery date back to 2020. What was the message plowed into this field in 2020?

4. Go to Crater Lake National Park. What’s the name of the island that has formed inside Crater Lake? The ‘Borders and Labels’ box should tell you the answer. Pretty cool, huh?

5. Go to Poplarville, Mississippi

Look at the top bar above your screen. The bar includes icons of a pushpin, video camera, rising sun, and ruler, among others. Click the icon of the planet Saturn. Click ‘Sky’. Give it time to load. The screen will show you what the sky above Hattiesburg looks like tonight.

Name any one of the constellations which should be overhead tonight in planet Saturn

Go back to the ‘Saturn’ icon and click ‘Earth’.

Latin America

6. Go to Mexicali, a city at the border between Mexico and the United States. Make sure your ‘Borders’ layer is on. See the border between the two countries? Mexicali has a “sister city” on the US side. What is the name of this “sister city” in California?

7. Type -33.867886, -63.987 into the Search box. A farmer has planted his field into what shape?

8. Type -34.545, -58.450 in your Search box. What is this? (Hint: It represents something really important in South America!)

9. What South American country owns Easter Island (the island known for the big-freestanding heads)?

10. Type El Ojo Lake. Zoom in to about 1800′. You’ll see a weird, circular-shaped lake there in eastern Argentina. Now click on the red balloon with the words ‘El Ojo’. According to the box that pops up, how many reviews are there of this lake?