Crawlin' on the Web
What is it?
On the Inside...
Storing Stuff
Ins and Outs
100
An online tool that responds with web pages related to entered keywords.
What is a search engine?
100
A programmable, electronic device that accepts data, performs operations on that data, and stores the data or results as needed
What is a computer?
100
The smallest unit of data a computer can store.
What is a bit?
100
Flash memory media and a reader in a single self-contained unit
What is USB flash drive, USB key, USB drive, etc...?
100
This is used to input audio data.
What is a microphone?
200
You use these symbols to search for a whole phrase in a search engine rather than individual words.
What are quotation marks?
200
These people write the software and programs that run on computers.
What are computer programmers?
200
The main circuit board inside the system unit that all computer components connect to.
What is the motherboard?
200
This is inserted into a storage device to be used.
What is a storage medium?
200
These tiny chips and radio transmitters are used in situations where scanning needs to be done without line of sight.
What are RFID tags?
300
The 95% of the web that is accessible only through databases and portal pages.
What is the deep web?
300
Input, Processing, Output, Storage, and Communication.
What are the basic operations of a computer?
300
An electronic path the data travels over.
What is a bus?
300
This is used to store most programs and data on a computer.
What is a hard drive?
300
Mouse, Pen, Stylus
What are pointing devices?
400
This online tool collects and displays the results of multiple search engines.
What is a meta-search engine?
400
Three of the six categories of computers.
What are embedded, mobile devices, personal, midrange server, mainframe, or supercomputer?
400
When a device loses any data it is storing when it loses power.
What is volatile?
400
These represent ones and zeros on optical disks.
What pits and lands?
400
This is used to convert scanned text to individual text characters.
What is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
500
Figuring out what a page was created for, who wrote it, and who else links to it.
What are ways to evaluate a web page?
500
This generation of computers started with the introduction of the microprocessor and was characterized by the rise of the keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
What is the fourth generation?
500
This device allows you to connect many devices to a single port.
What is a hub?
500
To divide a physical disk into multiple logical disks.
What is partitioning?
500
Laser printers use this as opposed to ink to print text onto paper.
What is toner?
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