Research Skills
Literary Genres
DDC
Atlas
Miscellaneous
100

Name one of the library databases.

What is World Book Online? (Culture Grams, World Almanac for Kids are also acceptable answers)

100
A true account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
DDC stands for:
What is Dewey Decimal System?
100
This shows North, South, East, and West.
What is the compass rose?
100
Non-fiction books are arranged by the author's name, by title, or by subject.
What is subject?
200
This book contains synonyms of other words.
What is the thesaurus?
200
This made up story takes place in the past.
What is historical fiction?
200
Sports are located in this section.
What is 700-799?
200
Maps usually include this to indicate what the different colors and symbols on a map mean.
What is a legend (or key)?
200
An interactive poster that is viewed online is called this.
What is a glog?
300
This is a list of the resources used to gather information for a report or project.
What is a bibliography?
300
This type of fictional story takes place in the present, and deals with issues that could take place in any person's life.
What is realistic fiction?
300
This person invented the Dewey Decimal System.
Who is Melvil Dewey?
300
The map scale is 1 inch=100 miles. Therefore, a distance of 13 inches equals this many miles.
What is 1,300 miles?
300

This special event occurs is celebrated in April.

What is National Poetry Month?

400
Wikipedia is a good resource when doing research- true or false?
What is false?
400
Graphic novels would be classified as fiction or non-fiction?
What is non-fiction?
400
This subject can be found in the 400s.
What is foreign language? (dictionaries and grammar are also acceptable)
400
True or false. An urban area has a very high population.
What is true?
400

This books's main character is a demigod who attends Camp Halfblood.

Who is Percy Jackson?

500

Fill in the blank using the following bibliographic example: Author's last name, Author's first name. Title of book. City of publication: __________________, copyright date.

What is the publisher?

500
This is a story that tries to explain how the world came to be, and why nature acts the way that it does.
What is a myth?
500
Books about aliens are in this section.
What is 000-099?
500
These lines run North to South all around the globe and meet at the poles.
What are longitude lines?
500

This app in Clever takes you to our library catalog.

What is Destiny Discover?

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