Bookmarks for United States Information
General Information about each State
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50
States and Capitals
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General information about each state, arranged by state, with links to
more detailed information. Each state also has a link to a nice shaded
relief map of the state as well as a satellite image. Maps are not labeled
for cities or other landmarks. http://www.50states.com/
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Stately
Knowledge
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This site gives basic information from all 50 states and Washington D.C.
There are also links to more information from each state. http://www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow/
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Almanac - Information
Please: United States
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This almanac contains general information about each state. Click on the
state name or type in the name of the state and click on Go! to search
other sources. Ignore advertisement banner and other links.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108173.html
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A
Brief Guide to State Facts
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A brief guide to the state bird, flower, motto, and other basic information
for each state in the U.S. with some links to other web pages that are
related to that state. http://phoenix.ans.se/freeweb/holly/state.htm
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Encyclopedia.com
from the Electronic Library
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This is a commercial site that offers brief encyclopedia articles for free.
Type in the name of a state to find short articles on the history, geography,
government etc. Ignore advertisement banners and information that is offered
for a fee. http://www.encyclopedia.com/home.html
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Encarta
Online Advanced Find Page
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This is a commercial site that offers brief encyclopedia articles for free.
Type in the name of a state to find short articles on the history, geography,
government etc. Ignore advertisement banners and information that is offered
for a fee. http://encarta.msn.com/find/find.asp
United States Climate Graphs
United
States Climate Page
Click on the state and then on a major city in the state. Graphs
of data collected over a series of years will show minimum and maximum
mean temperatures as well as precipitation totals by month.
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/USclimate/states.slow.html
Maps
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State
Maps Page
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Simple state maps showing the outline of the state and major cities labeled.
http://g-lea.tamu.edu/smap.htm
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Maps
of the United States
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Outline maps that show counties in the state, some city maps and maps of
National Parks, Monuments, and Historic Sites within each state. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/united_states.html#usa
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Map
Machine Atlas: Map @ nationalgeographic.com
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Click on a state and then click on the map of the state to show a larger
map. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/namerica/usofamm.html
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Color
Landform Atlas of the United States
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Nice shaded relief maps of each state and many also have satellite images.
Ignore the rest of the links on the pages. http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
State Home Pages
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The information on state home pages is often quite extensive and may be
difficult to sort through, but usually provides more in depth resources
about the state government, services, business and tourism information.
Try This when visiting state home pages:
When viewing state or city web pages: scroll trough the whole page to get
an overall idea of what types of information is available before clicking
on specific links.
50
States and Capitals Study List
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This site lists all the states and capitals. It can be printed as a study
guide. Each is inked to state and city web pages. State and city web pages
vary in quality and sophistication of information available. http://www.50states.com/thelist.htm
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Find
it on StateSearch: State Home Pages
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Links to state homepages for each of the states. Quality and type of information
from each state will vary according to what each state has posted on the
Web. http://www.nasire.org/ss/STstates.html
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Find
it on StateSearch: Tourism Home Pages
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This site has links to tourism home pages for most states. These sites
are good for general browsing of information about the state, but are not
usually set up for searching for specific information. http://www.nasire.org/ss/STtourism.html
State Quizzes
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Test
Your Geography Knowledge- USA - State Quiz
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Take a state quiz. Click on a state to show where it is located when shown
the name of the state. http://www.myna.com/~mccollam/geoquiz/usaquiz.html
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Do
You Know Your State Capitals?
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You type in name of state and capital and it tells you if you are right.
You can select any state from the outline map. http://www.concentric.net/~Kraft/capitals/
Other Sources of Information
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Biography.com
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Type in the name of a state to search for biographies of famous people
from that state. http://www.biography.com/find/find.html
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First
Nations Histories - North America
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Information about Native North Americans. This site is under construction
and is only complete for the northeast region. http://dickshovel.netgate.net/Compacts.html