Assignment 1 - Latitude and Longitude

Please do not start this assignment until you have completed sections 2.1 -2.5 and watched the Tutorial.

Please use the course World Atlas  and the world map on the inside cover of your textbook to complete this assignment. Do not rely only on the world map. Use it to orient yourself then use the detail maps in the Atlas to zero in on your location. Appendices in the Atlas may help with this assignment.

Name the city, mountain, island or other distinctive place found at each of the listed positions.

1. 40°N, 140°E.                      
2. 45°S, 168°E

 Find the geographical coordinates for the following locations (do not use minutes or seconds)

3. Isla de Los Estados (South America)
4. Cape Sable (United States)

5. The Length of the Equator is 24, 901 miles. Since the Equator pass through 360° of longitude, each degree of longitude at the Equator is approximately how many miles?

6. What is the latitude and name of the northernmost point of land in the 50 United States?

7. What is the latitude and name of the southernmost point of land in the continental United States?

The Surface of the Earth is about 70% ocean, 30% land. Now consider the four quadrants of the Earth: NW, NE, SW and SE.

8. Which quadrant has the most land?
9. Which quadrant has the most ocean?

 Use your atlas to find the following (there is a shortcut in your atlas)

10. The elevation in feet of Cerro Aconcagua, the highest peak in Argentina.
11. The elevation in feet of El' Brus, the highest peak in Europe.
12. The elevation of Denali in feet, the highest peak in North America

13. Name all of the countries through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes (exclude small islands)