Print and complete the test below.

Name:____________________________________________________________

Date: ____________________________________________________________

  1. A program which is used to visit web pages is called a _________________.
  2. The two most well-known web browsers are _________________and _________________.
  3. The predefined web page which appears when you first launch your web browser is called the _____________  ____________.
  4. The row of buttons at the top of your web browsers, known as the _________________.
  5. The _________________ button returns you to the previous page you've visited.
  6. ____________________ 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 ________________.
  8. If you can't connect to a site, use the ____________ button.
  9. Enter the address of a website you want to visit at the ________________ bar.
  10. One way to speed up a website's download is ____________________________________.
  11. To revisit a site that hasn't been stored as a bookmark or favorite use the browser's __________________ feature.
  12. Instead of searching through a webpage for a key word use the browser's _______________ feature.
  13. Which browser, Internet Explorer or Netscape, is better?____________________________  Explain your answer: _______________________________________________________________
  14. Special sites on the Internet that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites are called ____________________________________.
  15. Name one thing that all search engines do: _______________________________________________________________
  16. The special software robots a search engine employs to locate information are called ___________________________________.
  17. The process of collecting this list of information completed by software robots is called ______________________________________.
  18. Name three search engines: _________________  ____________________  ___________________
  19. The most common search directory is ______________________.
  20. Search engines that send your search terms to the databases maintained for other search engines are called __________________________________________.
  21. Name one of the most common Boolean operators. ______________________
  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 ________________________.
  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 _________________________________________.