WETMAAP Skill 1
Crescent Lake: Element 9

Skill 1: Map Use
Element 9: Use of GAP Map 

Materials:

Nebraska GAP Satellite Image
Nebraska State Map
Large Overlay
Colored pens

Exercises:

1.  Tape overlay over GAP Satellite Image.

2.  Use colored pens.

3.  Use BLACK pen to place marks at corners of grid.

4.  Use BLUE pen.

5.  Trace Missouri, Niobrara, Platte, South Platte, North Platte, and Republican Rivers on overlay.

6.  For a legend at the bottom of the overlay, draw a short BLUE horizontal line and label it "Rivers".

7.  Use BLACK pen.

8.  Trace the remainder of the outline of Nebraska.

9.  Use a BROWN pen.

10.Outline the Pine Ridge.

11. In the legend, draw a BROWN square and label it "Pine Ridge".

12. Use the ORANGE pen.

13. Outline (as best you can) the Sandhills Region.

Hint:Use the small inset map at the lower left for help.

14. In the legend, draw an ORANGE square and label it "Sandhills".

15. Use a YELLOW pen.

16. Outline the urban areas of Omaha, Lincoln, Norfolk, Grand Island, Kearney, North Platte, Columbus, Fremont, and Hastings.

17. In the legend, draw a YELLOW square and label it "Urban Areas".

18. Use a GREEN pen.

19. Locate, using Index map and Nebraska State Highway Map (as best you can), the small cities of Chadron, Alliance, Scottsbluff, Valentine, Broken Bow, Gothenburg, Cozad, Lexington, McCook, and Ogallala , by placing a GREEN dot at each location.

20. In the legend, draw a GREEN dot and label it "Small Cities".

21. Use a RED pen.

22. Outline major agricultural areas of the state: Corn Belt, North Platte Valley, High Plains, and Platte River Valley.

23. In the legend, draw a RED square and label it "Major Agricultural Areas".