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| What is one of the biggest factors affecting education? |
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| Which technological advance will NOT affect our personal lives in the future? |
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| Which business will allow products to be bought and sold through the Internet? |
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| Benefits of Genetic Engineering |
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Enabling a fruit to ripen without getting squashy
Enabling an animal to do something it typically couldn't
Increasing resistance to disease
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| An artificial environment that feels like a real environment is known as |
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What type of activity uses the Internet for investigation and problem solving?
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| What system allows users to pay online by transmitting a number from one computer to another? |
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| Changing the DNA in a living organism is known as |
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| The procesing of information on its own without human intervention is known as: |
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| Models of real-world activities that allow you to explore environments that amy be dangerous or unavailable are called: |
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| Using a computer as a tutor is called: |
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| Delivery of education over the Internet is called |
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A helmet would be required if participating in which type of application?
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| What is a software program that can be used to retrieve documents from the World Wide Web and to display them in a readable format? |
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| Software that is given to a user free of charge on a trial basis is |
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| What is a program that tricks users into thinking they have a virus? |
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| Who is a person who breaks into your computer files with bad intentions? |
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| What is a virus that is activated at a certain time or date? |
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| What is a virus that masquerades as a useful program? |
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Trojan Horse
It does something different from what it is expected to do. |
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| How do software companies prevent users from making multiple copies of their software? |
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| What is a type of virus that works its way slowly through file and deposits its destructive codes? |
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Worm
It makes copies of itself resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts tasks. |
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| Programs that allow a person to legally copy files and give them to anyone at no cost are called what? |
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Public domain
It can be freely distributed to anyone. |
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| When a virus is discovered on a computer, what should be done? |
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Run a virus disinfectant program |
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| If you would like to load copies of a commercial educational program on every computer in your school, you should |
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| John buys a single-user license of Microsoft Office for his home computer. His friend asks to bottow the CD so that he can load it on his computer. This is an example of: |
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| What is one way to safeguard access to a computer? |
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| How is a computer protected from a virus? |
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Install an anti-virus program. |
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| The standards of good moral conduct or principles are known as what? |
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Ethics
It means using a computer for good purposes. |
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| What virus is triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specified data? |
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| A program that is written to cause corruption of data on a computer is called what? |
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| What criminal act is committed through the use of a computer? |
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| What type of searching uses the asterisk * to search for plurals or variations of a word? |
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| What type of searching consists of the three logical operators AND, NOT, and OR? |
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| What type of searching would be used to locate words that must appear next to each other? |
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| What type of search engine would be used to locate graphics, video clips, animation, and MP3 files? |
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| What is another name for the Web site address? |
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Universal Resource Locator |
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| Examples of search engines, include: |
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www.altavista.com
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
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www.findme.com |
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| Electronic Mail (email) can be used for sending: |
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Attachments
Image files
Messages to a friend
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packages to friends |
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| helps the user find a Web page quickly and easily by giving web search results when part of the URL is keyed in the address bar. |
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| An automated feature that corrects typos as you type or key. |
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| An automated feature that keeps track of and provides a list of sites the user has visited or fills our forms automatically. |
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| this button connects you to the address that is displayed in the Address bar. |
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| The small picture in the upper right corner of the browser window that means your browser is accessing data from a remote computer. |
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| The horizontal menu that appears at the top of the window that provides a selection of options related to the Web page. |
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| the bar on the top of the browser that contains the name of the document. |
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| the area that contains the URL or web address of the active Web page. |
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| The vertical and horizontal navigation tools that allow a user to see a Web page if it is too long or too wide to fit within one screen. |
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| the search engine that uses keywords to perform searches. |
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| a chat option the allows a user to specify a list of friends and even tell when their friends are online. |
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| type of list allows one message to be sent to everyone in a particular group. |
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| Using the computer to create real-time communication between you and another user or group of users. |
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| the address rsmith@yahoo.com represents the user's domain name |
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| user's name in the address, rsmith@yahoo.com |
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| Attachments that could be sent with e-mail, include: |
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Audio files
Documents
Pictures
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packages |
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| is the standard the defines how messages are formatted and transmitted. |
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is a series of tags that are integrated into text documents and describes how the text should be formatted when a Web browser displays it on the screen
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the language used to create documents for the
World Wide Web |
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| is the standard format for transferring data between two devices. |
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| To connect to the Internet, you need a(an): |
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Browser
ISP (Internet Service Provider)
Modem
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| a discussion forum or type of bulletin board. |
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| IRC (Internet Relay Chat) |
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| An educational institution email address looks like this |
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| The parts of an e-mail address include: |
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The user name
The @ symbol
The user's domain name
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The user's password |
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www.microsoft.com
www.sprint.com
www.tide.com
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abrothers@yahoo.com
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| The "original" name of the Internet |
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TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
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the set of protocols that computers use to communicate with each other on the Internet;
how computers communicate on the Internet
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| software that allows a user to retrieve documents from the World Wide Web |
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| a program that allows users to send messages or files electronically. |
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