Submit a draft of the Google Earth tour of your chosen national park up to this point. Remember that you want to draw visitors to your national park by providing recommendations for learning about the geologic development and tectonic history of the area. In addition, you want to recommend the best possible route for touring the national park so that visitors can see and learn about the park’s geology effectively. The Google Earth virtual tour will provide visitors with a recommended route for touring the national park to efficiently learn about the geology and tectonic environment.
In Module Five, you are required to submit a draft of the Google Earth tour of your national park up to that point. Remember that you want to draw visitors to your national park by providing recommendations for learning about the geologic development and tectonic history of the area. In addition, you want to recommend the best possible route for touring the national park so that visitors can see and learn about the park’s geology effectively. The Google Earth virtual tour will provide visitors with a recommended route for touring the national park to efficiently learn about the geology and tectonic environment.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Develop a Google Earth virtual tour of your national park for potential tourists. Your tour should both showcase the geology of the park and be efficient and easily accessible. The tour should begin at the entrance you identify and work progressively through the park to the exit, with stops along the way to observe the park’s geology. This means that you may need to revise your entrance and exit locations after selecting your geological locations; your goal should be to develop a logical, cohesive tour. When you have finished creating your virtual tour, make sure to save it as a .kml file.
Transportation: Evaluate the transportation network near the park, and identify the most effective locations for entering and exiting the park, given the geologic sites that you want park visitors to experience (you may need to revise your entrance and/or exit after selecting your geologic locations). Add a placemark (pushpin) at the entrance and the exit that you identify.
Location Selection: Now that you have identified the most effective entrance and exit locations for the park, you are ready to focus on geology. Select locations in the national park where visitors could learn about geologic features of the national park. Add a placemark at each location you select.
Rock Type(s): Select two locations that demonstrate the predominant rock type(s) present in your park.
Tectonics: Select two locations that demonstrate the tectonic environment of your park.
Geologic History: Select two locations that demonstrate the geologic history of your park.
Structure(s): Select two locations that demonstrate the predominant subsurface or surficial structure(s) present in your park.
Geologic Features: Describe the geologic features of the locations you have selected. Your description should be placed in the description textbox for your placemark. Consider including embedded or linked video clips, soundbites, or graphics to support your description.
Rock Type(s): Analyze the texture, color, and appearance of the rocks you examined to select your locations. How does this analysis help you define the essential relationships between the rock type(s) and the economic deposits, geologic settings, and structural formations in or near the park?
Tectonics: Assess the tectonic environment of the locations where you added your placemarks. Are your locations convergent, divergent, or transform plate settings? How do you know?
Geologic History: Interpret the geologic history of the locations where you added your placemarks. How have geologic processes and events affected human and environmental concerns at these locations?
Structure(s): Contrast the processes that formed the structure(s) at the locations where you added your placemarks. How have these processes impacted the origin and structural formation of the landforms in your park?
What to Submit
Your Google Earth virtual tour should be saved as a .kml file. Cite your sources when appropriate using APA style.
Use Google Earth Pro. I’ll provide a link to download it. Just make sure it is a Kml file. Please use resources.
google earth pro: https://www.google.com/earth/about/versions/#download-pro
It needs to be detailed and have brief descriptions in each point.
