South American Geography
Mr. Olbash & Mrs. Paquarelli
This website will give you many resources for your South America project. The links below will take you to pages resources that cover all or many South American countries. You should start with these resources. The links at the bottom will take you to pages with websites or pages that are only about the listed countries.
Start with the Country Reports and Profiles - those will contain a lot of the information you need. Then check the other sections for weather, maps, flags, travel information, news and other items.
Country Reports and Profiles
- Factmonster Countries - the information here comes from the CIA World Factbook, the State Department, several encyclopedias, and other major resources
- CIA World Factbook - an important resource, but quite detailed. Be sure to watch for the rank order icon so you can figure out how your country stacks up against others.
- United Nations Countries at a Glance - choose your country to be taken to a page with a brief overview. Click on the tabs to see information about the economy, environment, health and technology. Compares data over time or to world measures.
- BBC Country Profiles - This has overviews of each country, but also includes some information on the current government leaders, the media (newspapers, TV, radio), a nice historical timeline, and links to current news stories
- Answers.com Places - note that some of the information here comes from Wikipedia, so that part may be of questionable quality
Compare Country Data
- IndexMundi has a lot of good tools for comparing data from various countries.
- UN InfoNation - Compare data about different countries.
Websites of Embassies
- Foreign Embassies in Washington, DC - Note: Some sites may not be available in English!
- List of U.S. Embassies in other countries
Flags, Maps, Holidays, Weather, Currency
Travel information
- US Dept. of State travel information
- Frommer's Central and South America - check the bottom of the page to links for each country
- Lonely Planet Guide – South America
- World Travel Guide – South America
- Rough Guides Travel Guide South America
- New York Times Travel section - search destinations
South American News
About the Olympics and Olympic Bids
Citing Your Sources
You must cite your sources in the MLA7 format and create a Works Cited page.
1. Gather information with citation worksheets:
- Book
- Encyclopedia
- Website
2. Use this Citation Maker to create your works cited page
3. Copy and paste your citations into Microsoft Word and format the page correctly. Need help? How to format Works Cited.
Here is a Sample Works Cited