QUESTION 1
What distance units are available in Google Earth's ruler drop-down menu?
Centimeters
Smoots
Egyptian cubits
Meters
Nautical miles
Kilometers
Parsecs
Yards
Furlongs
Feet
Arcseconds
Miles
Inches
Greek stadion
Degrees
QUESTION 2
What is the approximate distance between the cities of Chicago (IL) and Durban (South Africa)?
a. 6,440 km
b. 19,340 km
c. 14,400 km
d. 315 km
QUESTION 3
Based on the path described by the five points in the MSL .kmz file, what total distance has the Curiosity rover driven between its landing on 08/06/12 to its position on 11/01/13?
a. About 1 km.
b. About 3.5 km.
c. About 23 km.
d. About 8 km.
QUESTION 4
What is the latitude and longitude at the tip of the torch held by the Statue of Liberty (New York City)?
a. 40° 45' 6.12" N, 73° 59' 31.08" W
b. 40° 41' 21" N, 74° 02' 40" W
c. 40° 44' 74.36" N, 73° 59' 08.36" W
d. 40° 47' 28" N, 73° 52' 58" W
QUESTION 5
What is the elevation at the Waterloo battlefield (Belgium?) [coord: 50° 40' 42" N, 4° 24' 12" E]
a. 1220 m
b. 430 m
c. 130 m
d. 10 m
QUESTION 6
Zoom in on Mt Erebus volcano (Antarctica) and click on the volcano symbol from the Global Volcanism Program (Smithsonian Institution) volcano layer. What is said to be this volcano's dominant magma composition?
a. Andesite
b. Rhyolite
c. Phonolite
d. Basalt
1 points
QUESTION 7
Along the ELEV.kmz profile, which of these locations is at the lowest elevation?
a. The lake of Emosson (Lac d'Emosson, Switzerland)
b. The town of Chamonix (France)
c. The town of Monthey (Switzerland)
d. The Mont Blanc mountain
QUESTION 8
What approximate area does the Pentagon building cover? (including the inner courtyard)
Note: Do NOT Google the answer (you'll get the wrong answer). Follow the instructions in the lab for drawing a polygon in Google Earth and finding its area.
a. 140,000 m2
b. 600,000 m2
c. 6,500,000 m2
d. 340,000 m2
QUESTION 9
Approximately how many houses were present in the outlined ACEH.KMZ polygon in 2003?
a. About 500
b. About 50
c. About 10
d. About 1000
QUESTION 10
Knowing the area covered by the ACEH.KMZ polygon, and assuming an average of 4 inhabitants per house, what was the population density in the outlined area in March 2003?
Note: Watch your units! The answers are in people/km2. What are the units of the area you calculated for the polygon?
a. About 7,600/km2
b. About 130/km2
c. About 70/km2
d. About 760/km2
QUESTION 11
Calculate the total population in the same ACEH.KMZ area on 2/23/2009 (based on the number of houses). How much did the original population recover in the 4 years following the tsunami?
a. The population in that specific area recovered completely as the number of houses is either the same, or greater in 2009 than it was in 2003.
b. About 50% of the houses had been rebuilt in February 2009 compared to what was present before the tsunami (image of March 2003).
c. The population did not recover at all. No houses had been rebuild in that area by February 2009.
d. Only 10% of the houses had been rebuilt in February 2009 compared to what was present before the tsunami (image of March 2003).
QUESTION 12
What is the distance between the Haiti earthquake epicenter (as shown by the symbol from the Earthquakes layer) and the square at the center of the town of Léogâne, Haiti?
a. 2 km
b. 27 km
c. 275 km
d. 10 km
QUESTION 13
How far (in kilometers, in a straight line) is the Jacmel air strip from the Léogâne town center? (NOTE: round your response to the tenths decimal place and do not include units, just type the number. i.e. "100.1" instead of "100 km" or "100.14")
1 points
QUESTION 14
What was the area of [18° 30' 27" N, 72° 37' 37" W] prior to hosting a refugee camp in January 2010?
a. A church
b. A soccer field
c. A "Doctors Without Borders" medical facility
d. A potato field
QUESTION 15
What important Goma (DRC) infrastructure seems to have been damaged by a 2002 lava flow on the eastern edge of town?
a. The landing strip of the international airport
b. The main hospital
c. The province's governor mansion
d. The headquarters of Radio Kivu (KIVU1, FM 88.6)
QUESTION 16
Using Google Earth historical imagery from July 2008, how much forested area around Malibu was affected by the October 2007 Malibu Canyon fire?
a. About 15 km2
b. About 255 km2
c. About 2 km2
d. About 45 km2