History - Term 4

Question 1

What are the 6 oldest forms of communication?

Answer 1

1. Speaking & Listening
2. Writing
3. Reading
4. Symbols
5. Dance
6. Songs
7. Art

Question 2

Who where the first people to live in South Africa?

Answer 2

The San People

Question 3

How did the san people communicate?

Answer 3

By talking to each other

Question 4

What is a Shamen?

Answer 4

A healer

Question 5

How was the first printing done?

Answer 5

On a Typewriter

Question 6

How does a type writer work?

Answer 6

Letters where carved on blocks and placed in fixed lines, ink was painted onto the letters and pressed down hard onto a sheet of paper.

Question 7

How did the post office work in the old days?

Answer 7

Sailors would leave letters under a stone for the ships to collect

Question 8

Name 3 modern forms of communication

Answer 8

1. The Telephone
2. The Cellphone
3. Laptops
4. Television

Question 9

What is it called when long and short electrical bursts were written in dots and dashes?

Answer 9

Morse Code

Question 10

Name 2 things that make television such a good way of communicating

Answer 10

1. Can watch something on TV while its happening far away

2. Can hear whats happening

Question 11

How does a camera work?

Answer 11

It has light-sensitive film that then gets developed and made into a picture on special paper

Question 12

What does www stand for?

Answer 12

World Wide Web

Question 13

Name 3 types of communication that work with electricity or battery?

Answer 13

TV - Electricity
Cellphone - Battery
Camera - Battery
Laptop - Battery

Question 14

Name 3 things you can do on a cellphone?

Answer 14

1. Phone
2. Text
3. Send Photos
4. Play games

Question 15

What does the word telephone mean?

Answer 15

far-sound

Question 16

What does telegraph mean?

Answer 16

far writer

Question 17

Who invented the radio?

Answer 17

Guglielmo `Marconi

Question 18

When was printing invented?

Answer 18

1440

Question 19

Who invented ‘movable type’ printing

Answer 19

Johann Guttenberg

Question 20

What does the word electronic mean?

Answer 20

Powered by Electricity

Question 21

What does manual mean?

Answer 21

By Hand

Question 22

What does the work of typewriters today?

Answer 22

Computers

Question 23

How where books copied long ago?

Answer 23

By Hand

Question 24

What happened in 1440 that was very important in the development of communication?

Answer 24

Printing was invented

Question 25

It is possible to communicate with someone by speaking if the other person doesn't __________?

Answer 25

Listen

Question 26

One cannot communicate by writing if the other person or people cannot ___________ ?

Answer 26

Read

Question 27

What is a symbol?

Answer 27

A sign or picture with meaning

Question 28

What can songs communicate?

Answer 28

Stories Information Feelings

Question 29

What is art?

Answer 29

Communication through pictures

Question 30

What is the oldest example of Art?

Answer 30

San rock art

Question 31

How does dance communicate?

Answer 31

Tells a story or shows feelings

Question 32

Why did the San use to Dance?

Answer 32

It was part of their Religion

Question 33

Where did the San believe the sun came from?

Answer 33

Out of the armpit of an old man, then some boys threw him into the sky and he became the sun.

Question 34

Why did the San make up stories and songs?

Answer 34

To explain how the world came to be

Question 35

What kind of communication is rock art?

Answer 35

Communication through art and symbols

Question 36

What was a Shamen?

Answer 36

People with special powers who communicated with god

Question 37

Name 3 things Shamans and healers do?

Answer 37

1. Draw illness and worries out of people 2. Become Animals 3. Spirits left bodies 4. Communicate with San God

Question 38

Explain what 'trance' is?

Answer 38

Trance is a state when someone is almost in a dream but they are still awake

Question 39

What Happened to Shamans and healers in trance?

Answer 39

They sweated, leaned forward and bled from the nose

Question 40

Explain how the things that happened in trance where shown in rock art

Answer 40

Figures & Lines where drawn

Question 41

How does morse code work?

Answer 41

Electrical pulses were sent along a wire in short and long bursts. The bursts where recorded as dots or dashes that stood for certain letters

Question 42

What signal does a telephone transmit?

Answer 42

Electrical Signals

Question 43

How do cameras work?

Answer 43

They record information and it can be seen for many years after they have been taken

Question 44

How is the sound on a TV captured?

Answer 44

With a Microphone

Question 45

What form of communication are computers and the internet?

Answer 45

Long Distance

Question 46

What is information stored on a computer called?

Answer 46

Data

Question 47

What does a computer do with data?

Answer 47

Changes it to text, numbers, images and sounds

Question 48

What do you need to use a computer to communicate with other people who have computers?

Answer 48

The Internet

Question 49

What is the internet?

Answer 49

A network of computer users and sites that have information

Question 50

What is the world wide web?

Answer 50

All computers, services and websites together