Blog Assignment #3

Hi Everyone,

Last week we concluded watching 9 Innings From Ground Zero, a tribute to the casualties and the survivors of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Please in a brief post to your blog respond to the following.

- Is the United States safer today from terrorist attack than it was 9/10/2001? How did watching 9 Innings From Ground Zero increase your knowledge of the events of that terrible day?

I appreciate your time and effort

Map Coordinates Exercise.

Directions: Go To Google Maps, www.googlemaps.com

Type in this set of coordinates: 33.9 N, 116.25 W.(Desert NE of Palm Springs CA.)

1. What do you observe here? Describe what you see in terms of pattern, density, and/or concentration?

2. How would you describe this climate area? What visual cues lead you to this conclusion?

Type in this second set of coordinates: 33.75 N, 116.25 W(golf courses in Palm Desert, CA).

3. How far is this location from the first set of coordinates?

4. What is going here? You may need to zoom in or out to understand what you see. Again, describe what you see in terms of pattern, density, concentration.

5. How would you describe human modification of the environment to this area?

6. Zoom out from this location and describe where it is. What about its situation explains its existence?