A7-U1 Vocabulary: Internet

Question 1

Internet

Answer 1

A global computer network providing a variety of information.

Question 2

WWW

Answer 2

The World Wide Web is a network of online content that is formatted in HTML.

Question 3

Web 2.0

Answer 3

The second stage of development of the World Wide Web.

Question 4

Network

Answer 4

Is a group of interconnected people or things.

Question 5

HTTP

Answer 5

HyperText transfer protocol.

Question 6

HTML

Answer 6

HyperText Markup Language.

Question 7

Active X

Answer 7

Is a software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Objection Model.

Question 8

Cookie

Answer 8

Is a mechanism that allows the server to store its own information about a user on the user’s own computer.

Question 9

Homepage

Answer 9

The introductory page of a website.

Question 10

Pop up ads

Answer 10

Are a form of online advertising.

Question 11

Collaborative sites

Answer 11

Refers to web, social and software tools used to facilitate a custom website.

Question 12

Digital literacy

Answer 12

Is the ability to use information and communication technology to find, evaluate, create, or communicate information.

Question 13

Search engine

Answer 13

Program that searches for and identifies items in a data base that corresponds to keywords.

Question 14

Web browser

Answer 14

Is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

Question 15

Boolean operators

Answer 15

Are simple words used as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords.

Question 16

Ranking-Based search engine

Answer 16

Refers to the positions at which a particular site appears in the results of a search engine query.

Question 17

Links listing website

Answer 17

Is an online list or catalog of websites.

Question 18

Key words

Answer 18

A word or concept of great significance.