+1 862 207 3288 1. Begin by downloading Google Earth and watch the tutorials on navigation, searching for places and drawing and measuring.
2. Make sure you understand how you navigate in Google Earth using the mouse, fly-to panel and the navigation controls. Once you are familiar with this, navigate to a place (e.g., house, neighborhood or apartment building) that you lived in as a child. In the rest of these instructions we will call this your ìchildhood homeî.
3. As described in the tutorials there are different ways of doing this. If you know the coordinates of a location such as your childhood home you can insert them in to the fly-to panel, or if you know the address you can enter this. If you still canít find the place you are looking for then try a combination of either interpreting the satellite imagery or using different combinations of an address. Usually it works if you type country, zip code, street number and street name in the fly-to panel, separated by comma.
4. Check the elevation of your childhood home. At the bottom of the screen you will see information, such as; Imagery Date, elevation and eye altitude.
5. Once you have located your childhood home then next zoom out so that you can view the greater surrounding community. Find the closest town or city center and record its geographic coordinates by adding a place mark using the [add place mark tool]. Name the place mark ìmy home townî.
6. Write down the coordinates as decimal degrees (e.g. 10.134567∞), decimal degree/minutes (e.g. 10∞ 8.07402í) and decimal degree/minute/seconds (e.g. 10∞ 8í 4.4412íí). You can calculate the conversions yourself, or change the [Show lat/long setting] under preferences (Mac users) or settings (PC users). Coordinates are viewed in the bottom corner of the screen.
7. Use the [ruler tool] and measure the distance between the ìmy home townî placemark and the school you attended when you lived there (or any nearby school).
8. Now use the [add path tool] and create the path to go from ìmy home townî to the school.
9. Finally, explore the area surrounding your childhood home using Google Earth as you work on Part B in Gradient.
Part 2 – Gradient
Not sure what Gradient is, or how it works – please watch the video in the Questions and Answers section of the course blackboard site before you do any more of this assignment!
In a well-written and concise manner (max 200 words for everything you type in to gradient, minimum 100 words) write a paragraph that answers the question below.
Question: Every place occupies a unique location or position on Earthís surface. Geographers can describe the location of a place by site, which is the physical character of a place. Where in the world is your childhood home (from Part A) located and what can you say about the physical character of this site? Specifically discuss topography (e.g. flat, hilly, alpine?), land use (e.g. forest, agriculture, wetland, town/city etc.?), water sources (e.g. rivers, lakes, oceans?) and climate (e.g. warm, cold, wet, dry, windy etc?) of this site. You do not need to include all of the information you collected in part A.
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