A letter you send through your computer (using the Internet)
What is e-mail?
100
A secret string of numbers, letters, or punctuation that allows secure access to something.
What is a password?
100
A program that can damage your computer.
What is a virus?
200
IP
What is the abbreviation for internet protocol?
200
Finding the best path through a network.
What is routing?
200
A place on the world wide web you can visit.
What is a website?
200
An agreed upon set of requirements for delivering packets of information across a network.
What is Internet Protocol?
200
A group of things that are connected to each other.
What is a network?
300
URL, or Universal Resource Locator
What is the address you type in the browser?
300
DSL or Digital Subscriber Line
What is a method of sending information using telephone or television cables?
300
A journal you can keep on the web (short for web log)
What is a blog?
300
The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.
What is copyright?
300
A computer that exists only to provide information to other computers.
What is a server?
400
DSL
What is the abbreviation for digital subscriber line?
400
Smaller chunks of information when a message is broken up to travel through the internet.
What are packets?
400
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat are all examples of this.
What is social media?
400
The 's' at the end of HTTPS in the URL bar stands for this.
What is secure?
400
Emails or websites that try to trick users into giving out personal information by disguising themselves as legitimate businesses.
What is phishing?
500
DNS, where the computer looks up the IP address for a URL.
What is the domain name service (or system)?
500
Something information is sent through using light.
What is a fiber optic cable?
500
To transfer information from a server to your own computer.
What is downloading?
500
A part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication; it's what blocks you from visiting some websites while on the school wifi.
What is a firewall?
500
All of the information available about you on the internet.