This reference is good for looking up specific facts, statistics, tables, and lists about people, places, events, countries, organizations, zip codes, and popular cultures such as sports and entertainment.

• Atlas

• Dictionary

• Almanac

• Encyclopedia

It contains an organized group of pictorial or illustrated political, cultural, physical, road, and/or thematic maps.

• Encyclopedia

• Atlas

• Thesaurus

• Biography

It contains information about famous and prominent people, both living and deceased.

• Dictionary

• Encyclopedia

• Biography

• Atlas

Its main use is to concisely define a certain word or topic.

• Atlas

• Thesaurus

• Almanac

• Dictionary

This reference can be general or can cover a specific subject, and contain alphabetically organized entries with varying detail.

• Dictionary

• Almanac

• Atlas

• Encyclopedia

It contains a collection of synonyms, and their opposites, or antonyms.

• Biography

• Encyclopedia

• Thesaurus

• Dictionary

These references are usually a collection of academic work from an expert in the field.

• Dictionary

• Almanac

• Thesaurus

• Journals

An organized list of people and/or organizations and helps one to find information such as addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

• Atlas

• Encyclopedia

• Almanac

• Directory

You want to know the synonym for the word jolly, what reference will you use?

• Atlas

• Thesaurus

• Encyclopedia

• Biography

You are reading a story and encounter the word rendezvous. What reference materials will you use to know the definition of that unfamiliar word?

• Newspaper

• Dictionary

• Almanac

• Atlas