Map Skills
This shows you North, South, East and West on a map
What is the compass rose?
These lines run east and west and divide the Earth into north and south hemispheres.
What are lines of latitude?
Two names for the country that we live in.
What is The United States, America or USA?
Spell the name of our city.
This shows you how far a place is from another place on a map.
These lines run north and south and divide the Earth into the east and west hemispheres.
What are lines of longitude?
What is Canada?
The name of the capital city of Iowa.
The name of the county we live in.
What is Emmet?
What is the legend?
The Equator is __?___ degree latitude.
What is 0 degrees latitude?
The country to the south of us
What is Mexico?
The number of counties in our state.
What is 99?
This type of map would have many different colors and show the boundaries between different states or countries.
What is a political map?
What is the Prime Meridian?
The number of contiguous states in the USA.
What is 48?
The name of two states that border Iowa.
What is Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Illinois, Missouri or Nebraska.
The large item that fell from the sky just outside of Estherville in 1879.
The three-dimensional, spherical scale model of the planet Earth.
What is a globe?
The city that the Prime Meridian goes through.
What is Greenwich, England?
The name of our country's capital?
What is Washington D.C?
The names of the two rivers that make up the eastern and western borders of Iowa.
The word that became famous by an Estherville newspaper reporter who made up the word to describe a bad snowstorm in 1870.
What is blizzard?