Assignment No. 2

ASSIGNMENT NO. 2

Click on Geography of Latin America on Good's Home Page
Click on Assignment No 2 and print.
Click on link called Geography of Latin America Resources
Go to Supporting Material and click on "CLICK HERE". Click on "Tropical Location of Much of Latin Amewrica"
1. In what degrees of latitudes are the tropics found?
2. How many times is the sun directly over-head in the low-latitudes?
Go back Distances in South America.
3. How many miles from Panama/Colombian border to Tierra del Feugo?
What percent of total earth land area is in Latin America?
Go back to Proximity to Africa.
4. If one were to trace a route southward along the 80 degree W. Longitude meridian south of Pittsburgh, PA, you would be in what ocean?
5. Note the red line from NE Brazil to West African Coast. From your notes indicate how far in miles it is between these two points?
Go back to Important Physical Features in South America.
6. What is the most prominent physical feature?
Click on "higher" and you'll get a list of highest mountains in the world.
7. What is the world's highest and what is the elevation?
8. What is the highest peak in South America and its elevation?
9. How many peaks are over 20,000 feet in South America?
10. Where is Mt. McKinley and how high is it?
11. What is the elevation of Popocatepetl outside Mexico City?
Go back to Important Physical Features in South America and go to bottom of page.
12. At 50 degrees South latitude, South America is ______________ miles across compared to ____________ miles across at 50 degree N. Latitude (USA/Canadian border area). How does this width in South America affect its temperature?
Go back to Tectonic Plates and click.
13. South American Plate is moving westward by how many inches per year?______. What is the plate west of the South American plate called?_________. How fast is it moving east by year _____________. The contact between these plates caused the _______ Mountains. Look at your textbook, page 36, and the map on this page. What is the name of the plate that is slamming into western Central America? _____________. What two geological events would this plate contact likely cause? ____________________ and _________________________.
Go back to SRU Home Page and go down to Materials to Accompany Part Two, The Andean Countries and Mexico. Go on down and click on Altitudinal Zonation in the Andes of South America. Notice the diagram of the four major altitudinal zones.
14. List the four zones, elevations in feet of each, and crops/livestock grown in each.
15. How many degrees per 1000 feet increase in elevation does the temperature decrease?_______. If temperature is 85 degree F. at 1,000 feet, what would the temperature be a 11,000 feet __________ (Calculate this simple math).
Go back to Climate of Guayaqul, Ecuador.
16. What is the average temperature in February? ___________ What is the average rainfall in February _________ and for the year ___________ (add them up). When does most of the rainfall occur?__________________.
Go back to Climate of Quito, Ecuador and click.
17. What is the average temperature in Quito for each month?_______ What is the difference in temperature between Quito and Guayaquil in February?___________. Why the difference in temperature considering that both are located near the Equator? (Refer to class notes if get into a bind)
Go back to Panama: Country and Cities and print map. 18. Where would you think it would be the wettest and where the driest?____________________________________ ________________________________________________.
19. Comment on this assignment. What do you think about all the maps on the SRU page? Was this exercise helpful to learn a little more about the WWW and relate this material to things discussed in class.
E-Mail assignment to Prof. Good at dangood@gasou.edu