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MJHS LS5
MJHS Alternate 5th grade vocab
Question | Answer |
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What is a fiction book? | A made-up story. |
What is a biography book? | The trude story of someone's life. |
What is a non-fiction book? | A "true" book. |
What is an atlas? | A book of maps. |
What is an almanac? | A book of facts and statistics. |
What is the Dewey Decimal System? | A system of classifying books by their subject. |
What is the call number? | Shows where to find the book on the shelf. |
What is the barcode? | How the computer identifies the book. |
What does copyright mean? | It is when the author registered the work as his/her won. |
What is the blurb? | 2-3 paragraphs that get the reader interested in the book. |
What are illustrations? | Any pictorial material. |
What is the Table of Contents? | A listing of sections/chapters in the order they appear. |
What is the index? | An alphabetical list of terms and what page(s) they appear on. |
What is an encyclopedia? | A book with articles on many subjects. |
What is a database? | A collection of material searchable by computer. |
What is a search engine? | A tool that lets you search the Internet. |
What is the Internet? | A vast network of computers that use common communication tools. |
What is a search term? | Words that you use to search electronically. |
What are hits? | The results of an Internet search. |
What is Google? | The largest search engine in the world. |