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Guided Lab 1A PART 3: USING GOOGLE EARTH to LOCATE (1 point per answer) Locate your Home Town, and write down the coordinates 1. Your House’s Coordinates: Lat: 39.35°, lon: -105.12° Locate the country of Latvia and write down the coordinates 2. Latvia’s Coordinates (at the marker): Lat: 56.81°, lon: 24.59° 3. What types of geographic features do you see in and around Latvia? From what I could see, there were a couple of rivers and a lot of places with greenery (forests?) Locate the following coordinate point in Google Earth. 40.821756 Latitude 14.426246 Longitude Hint 1: Coordinates must be entered with latitude first and longitude second. Hint 2: The coordinates are written in decimal degrees. You may need to switch the way Google Earth displays and reads Latitude and Longitude to ‘Decimal Degrees.’ (To do this, click Tools… Options. On the window that opens, locate the Show Lat/Long area. Then click the button next to ‘Decimal Degrees’) If you correctly enter the coordinates, Google Earth will zoom to Mt. Vesuvius. Be sure to rotate the view to see the mountain in three dimensions. Zoom out to see cities. 4. List the names of the nearest cities. Naples, Pompeii, Trecase, Boscoreale, Terzigno, Ercolano, Portici, San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Ottaviano, Somma Vesuviana, San Giorgio a Cremano 5. What type of natural hazard exists here? volcano 6. What famous historical natural disaster happened in this area? (If you don’t know, you may need to research Mt. Vesuvius on the web.) There have been multiple eruptions of Mr. Vesuvius and the most famous was the eruption in AD 79 that destroyed several cities surrounding the volcano and covering them in feet of ash.

Determine the shortest distance from the center of the crater to the coast, in kilometers and miles, round to the nearest whole number. 7. 6.5 kilometers 4 miles Use the ruler tool to measure the diameter of the crater located in the center of Mt. Vesuvius in meters. Use the “Map Length” value, not the ground length. 8. Diameter of crater: .34 miles Determine the approximate elevation change from the top edge of the crater to the bottom of the crater in meters and feet, round to the nearest whole number. You should measure from the highest point on the rim to the lowest point inside the crater. It is easy to search around for these high and low points by moving the mouse around while watch the elevation at the bottom of the screen. 9. 263 meters 863 feet 10. We will be using metric units in class. About how many feet are in 1 meter? 3.28 About how many kilometers are in 1 mile? 1.6 11. Feet in 1 meter 3.28 Kilometers in 1 mile 1.6 Longitude differs from one hemisphere to another. 12. Are the longitudes in the western hemisphere (west of Greenwich, England) positive or negative? Negative Are the longitudes in the eastern hemisphere (west of Greenwich, England) positive or negative? positive Latitudes differ in accordance with where they are in reference with the equator. 13. Are the latitudes north of the equator positive or negative? Positive Are the latitudes south of the equator positive or negative? negative...