Question 4 1 pts Using Google Maps e or Google Earth e, go to the following loca

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Question 4 1 pts Using Google Maps e or Google Earth e, go to the following location: 27 58'46.0"N 114°09'17.0"W Make sure that you are in satellite view. Observe the shape of the sand dunes in this area. Watch the video on this page: Toward what direction did the wind blow to create these dunes? [Hint: The tips of the dunes form downwind, making the dunes concave in the downwind direction. O northeast southeast O northwest Question 5 1 pts e, go to the following location Using Google Maps e or 25°20.35.5"S 131°02.13.1"E Make sure that you are in satellite view. What is the name of this desert? O Great Sandy Namib ?Gobi O Atacama

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Q.4) Wind blows from gentler side towards the steeper side of any ripple or dune. So if you facing from gentler side towards the steeper side of a dune it is the direction of flow.

Here look at the dunes, if you facing towards North-West, this will give you the flow direction of wind.

Here the qusetion is toward what direction did the wind blow to create the these dunes ? And the answer is North-West.

Q.5) Yes the name of the desert here is Great Sandy desert of Australia.

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