3rd Grade Reference Materials Test

1. Which reference would you use to find information about Thomas Jefferson?

• encyclopedia
• atlas
• almanac
• dictionary
• thesaurus

2. Which reference would you use to find the meaning for the word character?

• dictionary
• atlas
• almanac
• thesaurus
• encyclopedia

3. Which reference would you use to find a synonym or antonym for happy?

• thesaurus
• atlas
• almanac
• dictionary
• encyclopedia

4. Which reference would you use to find what birthstone is for the month of March?

• almanac
• atlas
• dictionary
• encyclopedia
• thesaurus

5. Which reference would you use to find the continent of North America?

• atlas
• almanac
• dictionary
• encyclopedia
• nonfiction book

6. Which reference would you use to get information from a website?

• Internet
• atlas
• almanac
• dictionary
• encyclopedia

7. Which reference could you use from the library to get facts about elephants?

• nonfiction book
• atlas
• almanac
• dictionary
• encyclopedia

8. What kind of facts do we get from an almanac?

• Long facts
• Many facts
• Short, quick facts

Bonus for 2 points: What is an atlas? Type in your answer.