Unit 3 Competency 1

Finding Information on the Web

Directions: You will learnhow to find information on the web. Answer all questions below. There are 30 questions in

this activity.
1. Save this document in your directory as Finding_Information_on_the_Web_1st initial and last name.
(ex.: Finding_Information_on_the_Web_JSmith)

2. Hold the Ctrl key and left click the hyperlinked word(s) – blue words that are underlined –or the web address to visit

the websites.

3. You can key your answer or copy/paste.

Question/Hyperlinks / Your Answer/Response
Use the following link to answer questions 1-5:

  1. The starting point of a website is called the ______.
  2. You can always return to the home page by clicking on the website’s ______.
  3. On most web pages--you will see words that are in color, usually blue, and often underlined. These words are known as ______.
  4. Clicking on a hypertext will take you where?
  5. To locate specific information, use the ______.
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Use the following link to answer questions 6-7:

  1. A web browser is the software program you use to access the ______.
  2. Although many different browsers are available, ______, ______, and ______are most popular.
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Use the following link to answer questions 9-15:

9. The ______button (the arrow pointing to the left) returns you the
previous web page you've visited.
10. Use the ______button to return to the page you just came from.
11. ______takes you to whichever home page you've chosen. (If you
haven't selected one, it will return you to the default home page,
usually the Microsoft, Netscape or Google website.)
12. ______or ______does just that, loads the web page again. Why
would you want to do this? Sometimes all of the elements of a web
page haven't loaded the first time, because the file transfer was
interrupted.
13. ______lets you make a hard copy of the current page loaded in your
browser.
14. If you can't connect to a site or if the page is loading very slowly, use the ______button and try again later, especially if you are trying to access a popular site.
15. ______or ______lets you can record the addresses of
websites you want to revisit. / 9.
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Use the following link to answer questions 16-17:

16. On the simplest level, the Web physically consists of your
______, web browser software, a connection to an
______service provider, computers called ______that host
digital data and routers and switches to direct the flow of information.
17. The "glue" that holds the Web together is called ______and
______. This feature allows electronic files on the Web to be
linked so you can jump easily between them. / 16.
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Use the following link to answer questions 18-20:

18. A webpage is an electronic document written in a computer language called ______, short for ______.
19. Each web page has a unique address, called a ______or
______that identifies where it's located on the network.
20. A ______has one or more related web pages, depending on
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Use the following link to answer questions 21-22:

21. You enter the URL of a site or web page by typing it into the
______of your web browser.
22. A URL usually has no ______. A URL always uses ______(//). / 21.
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Use the following link to answer questions 23-27:

23. -- Short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, this indicates a
______or ______.
24. www. --This indicates a page on the ______. (These days, the
"www" is optional.)
25. learnthenet.com/ -- Called the ______, it often indicates the
name of a company, university, or organization. It can also tell you the
country of origin.
26. net.com/ -- Together, these indicate the ______
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Use the following link to answer questions 27-31:

27. You've probably heard of ______such as Yahoo!,
Google, and Bing. There are literally dozens of these tools to help
you locate what you're looking for.
28. Search engines break down into two types: ______and
______.
29. Directories, such as Yahoo, are good at identifying
______.
30. Indexes like Google and Bing identify ______.
31. Search results are usually ranked in order of ______--the
number of times your search term appears in a document--or how
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Use the following link to answer questions 32-33:

32. Boolean logic uses words called operators to determine whether a
statement is true or false. The most common operators are ______,
_____ and _____. These three little words can be enormously helpful
when doing online searches.
33. Rather than search each directory or index individually, you can submit your query simultaneously to multiple search engines by doing a ______. / 32.
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Use the following link to answer questions 34-36:

34. Capital Sensitivity--If a search keyword is ______, the search engine will return only documents containing the capitalized word.35. When using search terms containing more than one word, enclosing them in ______, returns documents containing the exact phrase only. 36. Some engines offer a variation of the Boolean operators AND and NOT. A ______symbol preceding a word (with no space between) requires that the word be present in documents. A ______symbol preceding a keyword ensures that the word is not present in returned documents.
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Use the following link to answer questions 34-36:

37. Try your luck at the one or more of these games. Key your score in the answer column.

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