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Unit 3 Competency 1
Finding Information on the Web
Directions: You will learn how to find information on the web. Answer all questions below. There are 30 questions in
this activity.
1. Save this document in your directory as Finding_Information_on_the_Web_1st initial and last name.
(ex.: Finding_Information_on_the_Web_JSmith)
2. Hold the Ctrl key and left click the hyperlinked word(s) – blue words that are underlined – or the web address to visit
the websites.
3. You can key your answer or copy/paste.
Question/Hyperlinks
Your Answer/Response
1. See how the Web works. Click on the start button and then next to
answer the following questions:
a. To access a website, your first enter its address, called a
______________, in the Address box of your browser.
b. The http:// indicates that the browser and web server will
communicate using______________________.
c. The www indicates a resource is on the _________________.
d. The learnthenet.com, called a _______________, identifies which
computer, called a web server, hosts the site.
e. Your web browser sends the request to the appropriate
_____________ on the Internet.
f. The web server locates the files, then ____________ them to your
computer.
g. Your web browser assembles the page on your __________.
1a. URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
b. Hypertext Transfer Protocol
c. World Wide Web
d. domain name
e. web server
f. downloads
g. screen
2. A web browser is the software program you use to access the
____________________.
World Wide Web
3. Although many different browsers are available, ______________,
_____________, and ___________ are most popular.
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox,
Netscape Navigator
4. Learn about the toolbar of a web browser. Answer the following
questions:
a. The _______ button (the arrow pointing to the left) returns you the
previous web page you've visited.
b. Use the _________ button to return to the page you just came from.
c. ______ takes you to whichever home page you've chosen. (If you
haven't selected one, it will return you to the default home page,
usually the Microsoft, Netscape or Google website.)
d. ________ or ________does just that, loads the web page again. Why
would you want to do this? Sometimes all of the elements of a web
page haven't loaded the first time, because the file transfer was
interrupted.
e. _______ lets you make a hard copy of the current page loaded in your
browser.
f. If you can't connect to a site or if the page is loading very slowly, use the
_______ button and try again later, especially if you are trying to access
a popular site.
g. _________ or __________ lets you can record the addresses of
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a. back
b. forward
c. home
d. reload, refresh
e. print
f. stop
g. bookmarks, favorites
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websites you want to revisit.
5. At the bottom of your web browser you'll find the __________. You
can watch the progress of web page transactions, such as the address
of the site you are contacting, whether the host computer has been
contacted and the size and number of the files to be downloaded.
6. On the simplest level, the Web physically consists of your
____________, web browser software, a connection to an
___________ service provider, computers called _________ that host
digital data and routers and switches to direct the flow of information.
7. The "glue" that holds the Web together is called ________ and
__________. This feature allows electronic files on the Web to be
linked so you can jump easily between them.
8. Web pages are written in a computer language called
_________________ or __________.
9. Each web page has a unique address, called a ______ or
_________________ that identifies where it's located on the network.
10. A __________ has one or more related web pages, depending on
how it's designed.
11. When you browse the World Wide Web you’ll see the term home
page often. Think of a home page as the __________ of a website.
status bar
personal computer, Internet, servers
hypertext, hyperlinks
Hypertext Markup Language, HTML
URL, Uniform Resource Locator
website
starting point
12. How can you tell which text are links? ________ appear in a different
color from the rest of the text--typically in blue and often underlined.
13. Learn about the Anatomy of a URL. Answer the following questions:
a. http:// -- Short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, this indicates a
__________ or _____________.
b. www. -- This indicates a page on the ___________. (These days, the
"www" is optional.)
c. learnthenet.com/ -- Called the ___________, it often indicates the
name of a company, university, or organization. It can also tell you the
country of origin.
d. www.learnthe net.com/ -- Together, these indicate the ___________
name.
14. You enter the URL of a site or web page by typing it into the
______________ of your web browser.
text links
15. A URL usually has no ___________. A URL always uses ___________
slashes (//).
spaces, forward
16. Identify the following solutions to these Error Messages:
a. 400-Bad Request There’s something wrong with the address you
entered.
b. 401-Unauthorized You can’t access a website because you’re not on
the guest list, your password is invalid or you have entered your
password incorrectly.
c. 404-Not Found Either the web page no longer exists on the server or it
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a.
b.
c.
d.
Web document, directory
World Wide Web
domain name
web server
address bar
a. Check the address carefully,
especially if the address is long.
Make sure that the slashes are
correct (they should be forward
slashes) and that all the names are
properly spelled.
b. If you think you have authorization,
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is nowhere to be found.
17. Do you think you know Web basics? Find out by taking the quick
quiz. Key your score in the answer column.
18. See how the search engines works. Click on the start button and
then next to answer the following questions:
a. Search engines use software called __________, which comb the
Internet look for documents and their Web addresses.
b. The documents and Web addresses are collected and sent to the
search engine’s _________ software.
c. The indexing software extracts information from the documents,
storing it in a __________. The kind of information indexed depends on
the particular _______________. Some index every word in a
document; others index the document title only.
d. When you perform a search by entering keywords, the database is
searched for documents that _________.
e. The search engine assembles a _____________ that lists the results as
hypertext links.
19. You've probably heard of ________________ such as Yahoo!,
Google, and Ask.com. There are literally dozens of these tools to help
you locate what you're looking for.
20. Search engines break down into two types: _____________ and
_______________.
21. Directories, such as Yahoo, are good at identifying
_________________. Like a card catalog in a library, they classify
websites into categories, such as accounting firms, English
universities and natural history museums. The results of your search
will be a list of websites related to your ______________.
22. But what if you want specific information, such as biographical
information about Leonardo da Vinci? _______________ are the way
to go, because they search all the contents of a website. Indexes use
software programs called ___________ and _____________ that
scour the Internet analyzing billions of web pages, newsgroup and
blog postings, and indexing all of the words.
23. Indexes like __________ and MSN Search identify the text on
individual pages of a website that match your search criteria, even if
the site itself has nothing to do with what you are looking for. You
can often find unexpected gems of information this way, but be
prepared to wade through a lot of __________ information too.
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try typing your password again.
Remember that passwords are case
sensitive.
c. Check the address carefully and try
entering it again. You might also
see if the site has a search engine. If
so, use it to hunt for the document.
(It's not uncommon for pages to
change their addresses when a
website is redesigned.)
Scores will vary
a. spiders
b. indexing
c. database, search engine
d. match
e. web page
search engines
directories, indexes
general information, search term
Web indexes, spiders, robots
Google, irrelevant
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24. Search results are usually ranked in order of ____________--the
number of times your search term appears in a document--or how
closely the document appears to match a concept you have entered.
25. Because there is so much information online, usually you will want to
limit the scope of your searches. How do you do this? This is a good
point to digress to talk about _____________ operators.
26. Boolean logic uses words called operators to determine whether a
statement is true or false. The most common operators are ______,
_____ and _____. These three little words can be enormously helpful
when doing online searches.
27. Capital Sensitivity--If a search keyword is __________, the search
engine will return only documents containing the capitalized word.
28. When using search terms containing more than one word, enclosing
them in _______________, returns documents containing the exact
phrase only.
29. Some engines offer a variation of the Boolean operators AND and
NOT. A ________ symbol preceding a word (with no space between)
requires that the word be present in documents. A ________ symbol
preceding a keyword ensures that the word is not present in returned
documents.
30. Try your luck at the Net Hunt 1.0. It’s not what you know, but
knowing how to find the information you need. Use the Search box
to help you find the answers. Key your score in the answer column.
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relevancy
Boolean
And, or, not
capitalized
quotation marks
+, -
Scores will vary