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GEOGRAPHY

7.1. Basic Geographic Literacy

CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

FirstGov for Kids: Geography
http://www.kids.gov/k_geography.htm

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

MapQuest
http://www.mapquest.com/

National Geographic's Map Machine
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

Test Your Geography Knowledge
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

Tiger Map Server Browser
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl

United Nations Cyberschoolbus
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/

WorldAtlas.com
http://graphicmaps.com/

7.2. The Physical Characteristics of Places and Regions

Earth from Space
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/EFS/

TerraServer: USA
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

7.3. The Human Characteristics of Places and Regions

American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html

Geographia
http://www.geographia.com/

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

7.4. The Interaction Between People and Places

Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html