Google Earth World Icons Data II

(Scrambled)

Latitude / Longitude

Location

World Icon:

03 09 28.28 N101 42 41.70 E

Australia

Golden Gate Bridge

43 43 22.78 N 10 23 47.07 E

Egypt

Leaning Tower of Pisa

51 29 58.10 N 0 07 38.76 W

Italy

Luxor Hotel

43 04 40.35 N 79 04 31.55 W

Japan

Mount Fuji

38 52 15.59 N 77 03 21.47 W

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Niagara Falls

29 58 33.21 N 31 07 49.33 E

Las Vegas, Nevada

Pentagon

40 41 21.00 N 74 02 40.51 W

London, England

Petronas Towers

36 05 43.86 N 115 10 33.70 W

New York

Pyramids of Giza

28 22 31.34 N 81 32 58.11 W

New York & Canada Border

Epcot

37 48 50.54 N 122 28 40.50 W

Orlando, Florida

Statue of Liberty

33 51 24.57 S 151 12 54.92 E

San Francisco

Sydney Opera House

35 21 46.05 N 138 43 49.96 E

Arlington, Virginia

Westminster Abbey

Confirm all icon names and locations with Wikipedia.

 

 

1. Save this document in your My Documents folder with the filename:

Last name, first name, class and Google Earth World Icons II. 

I.E. (Doe John 4a Google Earth World Icons II)

2. Copy a Latitude / Longitude from the table above into the search box in Google Earth.

3. Decide which world icon the coordinates brought you to; paste the Latitude Longitude UNDER the appropriate picture (next to the Lat. Long. cell).

4. Use visual clues in Google Earth and Wikipedia to decide the appropriate “Location” and “World Icon” name.  Copy and paste the locations and world icon names from the table above to the appropriate cell in your Google Earth World Icons II page (under the picture).

5. Copy TWO interesting sentences from Wikipedia to the “Facts” cell under the appropriate picture.

6. When your Google Earth World Icons II page is complete: save it, close MS Word and copy it from your My Documents folder to your class folder in the Turn_It_In folder.