Name _____________________________ Date _________ (Maps are hotlinked for larger projection on smartboard or screen.) Tulip Map Questions The US and Canada are divided into planting zones. Study the map and the color key below. 1. Find your garden location. What color is your zone? What are the average minimum temperatures? 2. In warm zones 8 and 9 gardeners give their tulip bulbs a cold treatment in the refrigerator before planting in January. What colors are Zones 8 and 9? Describe where you find these zones on our map. BB 3. Find the gardens on the map that will be planted in January (they already reported so there will be a brown square at their garden site). Circle the garden sites in planting Zones 8 and 9. When do you predict these gardens will emerge? Will it be before or after your garden?