Research Skills
Literary Genres
DDC
Atlas
Miscellaneous
100

Name our library database/search engine.

What is Destiny?

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

How long are you allowed to check books out of the library?

What is two weeks.

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
What is the maximum number of books you are allowed to check out?

What is 2?

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

Name the performance that the junior high students performed for us not long ago.

What is School House Rocks.

500

Fill in the blank using the following bibliographic example: Author's last name, Author's first name. __________________, publisher, 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 computer program is what you will use in music the next few weeks.

What is Garage Band? 

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