Map Skills
Longitude and Latitude
Our Country
Our State
County and Town
100

This shows you North, South, East and West on a map

What is the compass rose?

100

These lines run east and west and divide the Earth into north and south hemispheres. 

What are lines of latitude? 

100

Two names for the country that we live in. 

What is The United States, America or USA?

100
The name of the state we live in.
What is Iowa? 
100

Spell the name of our city. 

What is ESTHERVILLE?
200

This shows you how far a place is from another place on a map.

What is the map scale?
200

These lines run north and south and divide the Earth into the east and west hemispheres. 

What are lines of longitude? 

200
The name of the country to the North of us.

What is Canada? 

200

The name of the capital city of Iowa.

What is Des Moines?
200

The name of the county we live in.

What is Emmet? 

300
This shows you what symbols on a map mean.

What is the legend?

300

The Equator is __?___ degree latitude. 

What is 0 degrees latitude? 

300

The country to the south of us

What is Mexico? 

300

The number of counties in our state.

What is 99?

300
The person our city or town was named after.
Who is Esther Ridley? 
400

This type of map would have many different colors and show the boundaries between different states or countries. 

What is a political map?

400
The name for 0 degrees longitude.

What is the Prime Meridian? 

400

The number of contiguous states in the USA. 

What is 48? 

400

The name of two states that border Iowa.

What is Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Illinois, Missouri or Nebraska.

400

The large item that fell from the sky just outside of Estherville in 1879. 

What is a meteorite? 
500

The three-dimensional, spherical scale model of the planet Earth. 

What is a globe? 

500

The city that the Prime Meridian goes through.

What is Greenwich, England?  


500

The name of our country's capital?

What is Washington D.C?

500

The names of the two rivers that make up the eastern and western borders of Iowa. 

What is the Missouri River on the west and the Mississippi River on the east?
500

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?