6. A method of connecting to the internet which makes use of a modem and telephone line. This offers a slow connection.
Search Engine
Dial-Up Modem
Bandwidth
Broadbadn
7. Devices that offer people access to the internet wirelessly, such as laptops, mobile phones and PDA’s.
Bandwidth
Mobile Access
Networks
Router
8. A standard Internet Protocol providing a simple way of transferring files between computers using the internet.
E-MAIL
FTP
USB Stick
WWW.
9. If you type into a search two word with **, you will be shown all documents that contain one or the other words. ** means I want documents that contain either word. I don’t care which word.
NO
SO
OR
IP
10. Where a series of computers are networked together and they each work on solving the same problem. Each computer shares data, processing, storage and bandwidth in order to solve a single problem.
Bandwidth
Distributed Databases
Distributed Computing
Search Engine
11. A search that allows you to save time by narrowing down the results of a simple search.
AND Search
Boolean Search
Web Crawler
Search Engine
12. If you type into a search engine with two words and *** then the documents shown will only be documents containing both of the key words *** means ‘I want only documents that contain both words’.
AND
URL
NOT
FTP
13. A fast connection to the Internet that does not use a modem.
Dial-Up
URL
Broadband
Internet
14. A measure of the amount of data that can be transferred using a data transfer medium.
Internet
Bandwidth
Broadband
FTP
15. If you wanted to search for information without a certain item appearing you would use the word ***. For example if you were searching for pets but not cats you may use ‘Pets *** cats’ as this would like pets without cats.
URL
USB
NOT
AND
16. Software that can be used to search for information on the internet.
