Answer Key

1. A program which is used to visit web pages is called a browser.
2. The two most well-known web browsers are Netscape and Internet Explorer.
3. The predefined web page which appears when you first launch your web browser is called the home page.
4. The row of buttons at the top of your web browsers, known as the toolbar.
5. The back button returns you to the previous page you've visited.
6. Refresh or Reload loads the web page again allowing you to see the latest update.
7. You can save the addresses of websites you want to revisit by using the bookmarks or favorites.
8. If you can't connect to a site, use the stop button.
9. Enter the address of a website you want to visit at the location bar.
10. One way to speed up a website's download is remove images or view website in text only.
11. To revisit a site that hasn't been stored as a bookmark or favorite use the browser's history feature.
12. Instead of searching through a webpage for a key word use the browser's find feature.
13. Which browser, Internet Explorer or Netscape, is better? (Possible answer: Internet Explorer)  Explain your answer:  Provides formatting for text and copying of images without saving them first.)
14. Special sites on the Internet that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites are called search engines.
15. Name one thing that all search engines do: (Any of the following is acceptable.)

    •         They search the Internet based on key words.

    •         They keep a listing of the words they find, and where they find them.

    •         They allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index.

     

16. The special software robots a search engine employs to locate information are called spiders.
17. The process of collecting this list of information completed by software robots is called web crawling.
18. Name 3 search engines:   Google, Lycos, Altavista
19. The most common search directory is Yahoo.
20. Search engines that send your search terms to the databases maintained for other search engines are called Meta-Search Engines.
21. Name one of the most common Boolean operators (Acceptable answers:  and, +, or, -, not, followed by, near, quotation marks)
22. A natural-language query is a question that you might ask to a human sitting beside you. The most popular natural language query site today is Ask Jeeves.
23. If you want a search engine to find pages that have one word on them but not another word use the symbol -.
24. If you want to make sure that a search engine finds pages that have all the words you enter, not just some of them, use the symbol +.
25. To locate pages that have all the words and in the exact order as you entered them use quotation marks.