Int   nit E

 Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

 1.   Some news search engines let you sort results by _______ .

a.   date

b.   relevance

c.   both

d.   neither


 

 

 

____    2.   Online weather services allow you to search for weather forecasts in cities ______.

a.   all over the world

b.   only in the U.S

c.   only in Europe

d.   only in the country in which the weather service is hosted


 

Figure E-1

____    3.   Figure E-1, the item marked 1 does which of the following?

a.   Shows the location of the address you mapped.

b.   Prints the map.

c.   Allows you to zoom in or out of the map.

d.   Displays driving directions for the address you mapped.


 

 

____    4.   Figure E-1, the item marked 4 does which of the following?

a.   Shows the location of the address you mapped.

b.   Prints the map.

c.   Allows you to zoom in or out of the map.

d.   Displays driving directions for the address you mapped.


 

 

 

____    5.   A search engine that enables you to find businesses grouped by type and location is called a _______.

a.   Web directory

b.   Yellow page directory

c.   White page directory

d.   Map site


 

Figure E-2

____    6.   In Figure E-2, item 2 ____.

a.   Opens a map of the business location

b.   Identifies businesses that paid for placement at the top of the list

c.   Links to the phone number of the business

d.   Names the category of businesses shown in the list

 

 

____    7.   The best site to use when you want to translate a phrase from one language into another is____.

a.   The U.S. Library of Congress site

b.   An online translation site

c.   A site that collects links to online encyclopedias

d.   The Internet Public Library site


 

 

 

____    8.   A _____ is approximately 1015 bytes.

a.   Megabyte

b.   Gigabyte

c.   Petabyte

d.   Terabyte


 

 

 

____    9.   A _______ is approximately 1012 bytes.

a.   Megabyte

b.   Gigabyte

c.   Petabyte

d.   Terabyte


 

 

 

____  110.   The Internet Archive’s ______ provides a series of snapshots of the Web at various points in its existence.

a.   Back to the Past Machine

b.   Times Gone By Machine

c.   Wayback Machine

d.   Go Back Machine


 

True/False

Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.

 

____  111.   You can look for news articles on a given subject by using a search engine that searches news sources exclusively.

 

____  112.   You can use the Web to obtain up-to-the-minute weather reports in destinations all over the world.

 

____  113.   It is impossible to restrict a search for Web sites that have been updated in a specific time frame.

 

____  114.   The exact location of the address you search for on a map site is marked on the map with some sort of indicator.

 

____  115.   Some Web sites enable you to search for addresses and telephone numbers for individuals as you would in a white pages phone book.

 

____  116.   It is impossible to archive any part of the Web.

 

____  117.   A terabyte is one million bytes.

 

____  118.   It is important to evaluate Web sites and the information they provide.

 

____  119.   You can get to the home page of a Web site by deleting all the text after the domain name in the URL in the Address or Location bar, and then pressing [Enter].

 

____  220.   Information on the Web has a failsafe standard for differentiating reliable data from less reliable data.

Completion  Complete each sentence or statement.

 

          221.   A(n) ____________________ search engine searches only online news sites.

 

          222.   A file containing summaries of stories and news from a Web site is a(n) ____________________.

 

          223.   To find out how to say a phrase in another language, you can use a(n) ____________________ site.

 

          224.   A(n) ____________________ is approximately 1012  bytes.

 

          225.   Incorrect ____________________ and grammar can be a sign of an unreliable Web site.

 

          226.   When you look at the design of a Web site critically to decide if the graphics serve a purpose, and if the colors are not distracting, you are evaluating the site’s ____________________.

 

          227.   The ____________________ contained in a product is not copyrightable.

 

          228.   ____________________ is the failure to cite the source of material you use in a paper or a report.

 

          229.   APA and MLA citations both include the ____________________ of a Web site in chevrons.

 

          330.   Error messages on a Web site that tell you that a particular page on the site doesn’t exist are called ____________________ errors.

Gary P. Schneider, Jessica Evans, and Katherine T. Pinard, The Internet—Illustrated Introductory, Fourth Edition, Course Technology, 2006.

Reference to course book reference  Retrieved November 1,2005 from World Wide Web:

        http://www.course.com/catalog/product.cfm?isbn=1-4188-3950-7.


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