Concept Vocabulary
Clue: Someone pretending to be someone else, like trying to unlock a phone by acting like the owner.
What is impostor?
Clue: A word meaning relating to safety or protection, like a camera used to keep people safe.
What is security?
Clue: The part of the text that tells us what the article will mostly be about, such as “The Biometric Body.”
What is the title?
Clue: The author’s main point that biometrics are not better than other forms of identification.
What is the central claim?
Clue: Judaism is one of the ______ religions in the world, beginning over 3,000 years ago.
What is oldest?
Clue: A trick used to cheat or steal, such as hacking accounts to steal information.
What is fraud?
Clue: Areas of weakness in a system that allow viruses or hackers to get in.
What are vulnerabilities?
Clue: A text feature that organizes information and tells what a section will explain.
What is a heading?
Clue: The structure that explains why something happens and what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
Clue: Judaism developed in this region known for early civilizations and fertile land.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Clue: Hiding who you really are, like masking your identity on social media.
What is disguise?
Clue: Making use of something to your advantage, such as using someone’s skills to win a game.
What is exploiting?
Clue: Words printed darker to show they are important or defined in the text.
What are bold words?
Clue: One cause discussed in the text: biometric systems collect fingerprints, facial scans, or voice data.
What is collecting personal biometric information?
Clue: People who follow Judaism are called this.
Who are Jews?
Clue: Pretending to be someone you are not, often through fake online profiles or identity theft.
What is masquerade?
Clue: Avoided or skipped, like getting around a security step.
What is bypassed?
Clue: Visuals that show how something works or explain information clearly.
What are diagrams?
Clue: A negative effect of stolen biometric data that makes it more dangerous than a password.
What is biometric data cannot be changed?
Clue: Jews believe in one God; this belief is called this.
What is monotheism?
Clue: Something that is copied or faked, such as fake fingerprints or IDs used to beat security systems.
What is forged?
Clue: Gaps or weaknesses in protection that allow systems to be attacked.
What are breaches?
Clue: Short descriptions under pictures that explain what you are looking at.
What are captions?
Clue: One disadvantage of biometrics that can lead to privacy problems.
What is data breaches, tracking without consent, or system errors?
Clue: This holy book is the most important sacred text in Judaism.
What is the Torah?