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Reference Skills

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of reference skill would you use to find the meaning of a word in your science text book?

a)

encyclopedia

b)

phone book

c)

glossary

d)

globe

2.

What type of reference skill would you use to find a synonym of the word warm?

a)

dictionary

b)

almanac

c)

thesaurus

d)

atlas

3.

What type of reference skill would you use to find what page a chapter starts on in a book about sloths?

a)

copyright page

b)

the spine of the book

c)

atlas

d)

table of contents

4.

When looking for states that border Oklahoma, where would you look?

a)

encyclopedia

b)

atlas

c)

thesaurus

d)

dictionary

5.

When you need to find out the average rainfall of Texas for the year 1998, where would you look?

a)

phone book

b)

encyclopedia

c)

dictionary

d)

almanac

6.

Where would you look to find out the weather for tomorrow?

a)

the internet

b)

dictionary

c)

encyclopedia

d)

atlas

7.

When you need to find the opposite of the word calm, where would you look?

a)

thesaurus

b)

almanac

c)

dictionary

d)

encyclopedia

8.

You don't know what the word function means, where do you look?

a)

atlas

b)

phone book

c)

almanac

d)

dictionary

9.

When writing about bearded dragons and you need to look back at a page talking about what they eat, how do you get to that information quickly?

a)

using the glossary

b)

using the title page

c)

using the index

d)

using the back cover

10.

What type of reference skill would you use to find a map of the Amazon River?

a)

atlas

b)

dictionary

c)

glossary

d)

thesaurus