How Messages Travel
Encryption & Codes
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100

This early form of communication used pictures and symbols on walls and stones.

Cave paintings

100

The process turns readable information into scrambled, unreadable information. 

encryption

100

What does PEMDAS stand for

parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, substitution.

100

Define vertebrates and invertebrates?

Animals that have a backbone are called vertebrates.

Animals that do not have a backbone are called invertebrates.  

100

What animal is known for having eight legs: an insect or a spider?

Spider

200

This communication method used puffs in the air to send short messages like “danger.”

smoke signal

200

This cipher was named after a Roman general and works by shifting letters of the alphabet.

the Caesar cipher

200

Give a real life example that uses negative numbers

temperatures, debt, elevation

200

I have moist skin, am cold-blooded, and may begin life in water with gills. What am I?

Amphibian

200

What code uses dots and dashes to represent letters?

Morse code

300

how did the printing press make communication easier

The printing press allowed hundreds of identical materials to be produced much faster

300

Name another form of encryption besides caesar cipher

Morse code, reverse cipher, numbers to letters

300

What is the rule when multiplying same signs and multiplying different signs?

Same signs → positive
Different signs → negative 

300

I lay leathery eggs. What am I?

Reptile

300

What is the largest animal on Earth?

Blue whale

400

This invention allowed people to send messages over long distances using electrical signals

telegraph/telegram

400

In a Caesar Cipher with a shift of 3, what does KHOOR decrypt to?

Hello

400

how is multiplication/division and addition/subtraction handled

left to right.

400

Aquatic mammals that are warm-blooded animals and live part or all of their lives in water are called?

mammals

400

Who plays spiderman in brand new day?

Tom holland

500

this technology made email widely accessible

The web/internet

500

A readable message before it is encrypted is called this.

plaintext

500

Solve 4 + 2 × (3² − 5). Must show work. No calculator.

→ 4 + 2 × (9 − 5)
→ 4 + 2 × 4
→ 4 + 8
→ 12

500

I have no backbone, eight arms, and a soft body. Am I a mammal, fish, reptile, amphibian, bird, or invertebrate?

Invertebrate

500

Name the site we used for online simulations

Phet interactive simulations

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