Name: ______Erin Ross_______________ Date: 10/9/13________ Period: _6th hour

Internet Treasure Hunt

Searching this computer hunt could make you more knowledgeable about the computer than your teacher. Use the links to go to a site that has the answer. Type your answers in the Word document in a different, easy-toread color like green, red, dark orange, purple, etc. Remember to save your completed document on your webpage. 1. What does DVD stand for? Nothing

2. What is a dingbat? Special characters like stars, hands, arrows, and geometric shapes you can use to decorate a document. Give an example of a use for these special font characters. 3. What is a handshake? Two modems perform a handshake each time they meet, just as two people shake hands to greet each other. 4. What is a home page? An introductory screen on the World Wide Web, used to welcome visitors. 5. What handles can you not hold in your hand? Little squares at the edges and corners of a selected graphic on your screen. 6. What kind of wafers is used at Intel to make computer chips? Sand 7. What is a modem? Is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. 8. What does modem stand for anyway? Modulator-demodulator 10. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information. What was the first document posted? Declaration of Independence. 11. When were floppy disks introduced? (Hint they were first called magnetic disks) late 1960s 12. What do the letters CD-ROM stands for? Compact Disk Read Only Memory 13. Name three computer peripherals. Any external device that plugs into your computer, such as a printer, modem, scanner, or tape drive. 14. What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard? The Dvorak keyboard unlike the Qwerty keyboard contains the most common letters on the home row. 15. What is a computer virus? Something that tries to get all of your passwords and IDs 16. How do you enter a (copyright symbol) in a Word document? Usually if you put parentheses around a c,
Word will automatically make it into a copyright. (C)

17. What is a byte? A group of binary digits or bits (usually eight) operated on as a unit.

18. What is a kilobyte? A unit of memory or data equal to 1,024 (210) byte 19. What is a megabyte? It of information equal to 220 bytes or, loosely, one million bytes 20. What is a gigabyte? A unit of information equal to one billion (109) or, strictly, 230 bytes. 21. What is a terabyte? Units of information equal to one million (1012) or strictly, 240 bytes. 22. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD holds? Audio cd's storage capacities may vary.
Some cds can hold as little as 800 MB, while some hold as much as 8GB.

23. Which is older: you or the World Wide Web?

Word wide web

by how much? 11 years

24. USB flash drives have replaced floppy disks. What is a USB flash drive? The USB, Universal Serial
Bus, Flash Drive was introduced as an alternative to floppy disks with the advantage of being more reliable, more durable, much faster and with much larger storage capacity.

25. What is a computer virus? A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates by inserting
copies of itself (possibly modified) into other computer programs, data files, ...

26. Name three computer peripherals. Any external device that plugs into your computer, such as a printer,
modem, scanner, or tape drive.

27. Apple Computer's G4 is a supercomputer because its operations can be measured in gigaflops. What is a gigaflop? A measure of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second. 28. What is spyware? What does it do? Spyware, also known as "malware", can do many nasty things to your
computer. Depending on which exact spyware infects your machine,

29. List two search engines for finding images: goggle images, pintrest 30. What is a domain name? The part of a network address that identifies it as belonging to a particular domain. 31. Why should you "Post to be Private" in social networking sites? So strangers cant see or share your photos and info.

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." Clifford Stoll