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Communication types
100
This is the path the message travels
What is the CHANNEL?
100
When a message is sent, received, and understood.
What is Communication?
100
A microphone
What is an encoder?
100
The channel
What is the path the mesage travels?
100
Set-C-R-Double-Dawg
What is Mrs. Jones' acronym for the proper sequence of the components of a communication system?
200
Who or what receives and understands the message.
Who or What is the DESTINATION?
200
The person or thing that produces the information or message to be sent.
Who or what is the source?
200
Your computer monitor when you read an email.
What is a decoder?
200
The encoder
What component converts the information to a form that can be easily sent?
200
This communication system is one directional
What is microwave communication?
300
This component converts the information into a form that can be sent easily.
What is the ENCODER?
300
This component converts the message back to a form that the destination can understand
What is the DECODER?
300
telephone wires
What is a channel?
300
System
When different parts of a group work together in a sequence to accomplish a goal?
300
These tall structures are needed to move cell phone messages from one place to another.
What is a cell phone tower?
400
What part of the system sends the message to the channel?
What is the Transmitter?
400
This form of communication relies on eye sight to send messages.
What is visual communication?
400
radio, television, newspapers, magazines
What is mass communication?
400
The Source
Who or what produces the information to be sent.
400
People who are blind can use this type of communication to read.
What is Braille?
500
This part takes in information and sends it to the decoder
What is the RECEIVER?
500
When information is sent or is accessbile to many people at once.
What is mass communication?
500
a stereo speaker
What is a decoder
500
The transmitter
What component takes the encoded message and sends it to the channel?
500
this type of communication systems channel sends light pulses instead of electrical signal to move messages from one place to another
What is fiber optic cable?
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