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Using Google Earth

This will help you learn what the different buttons and menus do in Google Earth.

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Click on this button to add an image overlay.
Click on this button to add a new path.
Click on this button to add a new placemartk.
Click this button to draw a new polygon.
Choose this right click menu to change what is inside a balloon.
If you want to change the icon of a placemark you click here.
Use this to navigate slowly in different directions.
If you want to change where North is, you use this navigation tool.
If you want to explore the night sky, click this button.
You use this tool to change the tilt of the land.
This tool will zoom you in closer or zoom you out farther.
If you want to measure the distance between places you would use this tool.
The Search Panel, If you wanted to find a place in the world, you would use the field in this panel.
The Layers Panel, You would look through the items in this panel to add all sorts of information to the world.
The Places Panel, When you add a placemark, it is stored in this panel.
View menu, Which menu would you use if you wanted to see the Longitude and Latitude grid?
Add menu, If you wanted to put a 3D model that you made in SketchUp into Google Earth, which menu would you use?
File menu, What menu would you use if you wanted to print a screenshot of the place you were looking at?


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