Word Processing Vocab
Computer Terminology
Computer Ethics
Web Browsing
Difficult Terminology
100
The positioning of lines in a text or paragraph
What is alignment?
100
An oral report that may include audio, text, graphics, and presentation software
What is a presentation?
100
Laws that grant legal rights to a creator and require others to gain permission before using it.
What is a copyright?
100
A global network of thousands of other computer networks
What is the Internet?
100
Small text files identifying a user's personal preferences and setting and allows the web site's server to retrieve your information.
What are cookies?
200
The blinking line, box, or arrow on the computer screen
What is the cursor?
200
Connections between images, web pages, words, etc.
What are links?
200
Copying or using someone else's work and taking credit for it.
What is plagiarism?
200
Software such as google that searches, gathers, and identifies information from a database based on keywords.
What is a search engine?
200
The main chip that allows computers to do millions of calculations per second.
What is the CPU?
300
The key used to begin a new line.
What is ENTER?
300
The instructions written in code that tell a web page how to display properly are called....
What is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
300
Property of the mind including ideas, inventions, and creations such as art and music.
What is intellectual property?
300
Software used to view various kinds of Internet resources. Examples are Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.
What is a browser?
300
Malicious software that enters a computer and tracks and gathers personal information
What is spyware?
400
The difference between save and save as.
Save as saves a project with a new name. Save just saves any changes under the same name.
400
Which type of software would you use to convert numbers into graphs and charts?
What is spreadsheet software such as Excel?
400
Harassment, taunting, and teasing committed online.
What is cyber bullying?
400
Technology that prevents users from visiting inappropriate web sites.
What is a firewall?
400
Information about yourself that you leave online through postings and photographs.
What is virtual footprint?
500
Making exact replicas of information and placing it elsewhere.
What is copy and paste?
500
List three domains and explain what they mean about who created the web site.
Possible responses: .edu - college or university .org - non-profit .com - commercial .net - person or organization with a certain Internet Service Provider .gov - government organization
500
Tricking users into revealing personal information such as passwords and bank account numbers by way of e-mails purporting to be from actual companies.
What is phishing?
500
Which of the following would be a good site to get information from for a school report about panda bears? A. Wikipedia B. Someone's blog C. National Geographic website D. pandabears.com
What is the National Geographic website?
500
A set of rules and guidelines that are set up to regulate Internet use and protect the user.
What is the Acceptable Use Policy?