Deck 4: Information Resources on the Web

Question 1

Some commonly used map sites include Google Maps and MapQuest.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Some common travel guide sites are Frommer's Travel Guides and TripAdvisor.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

People often use travel guide sites to plan a trip from selecting a destination to learning about the history and attractions.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The accompanying figure shows commonly used formatting styles that specifically follow the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines.

Question 5

MLA stands for the Modern Language Association.

Question 6

The GIF file format is commonly used for line drawings.

Question 7

The law's definition of "fair use" can be difficult to interpret.

Question 8

In many instances, you can search a site's archives for older articles.

Question 9

Claiming someone else's work as your own is a serious legal violation.

Question 10

Original ideas are a form of intellectual property.

Question 11

Two popular weather information Web sites are Weather Underground and The Weather Channel.

Question 12

The four largest wire services are all located in North America.

Question 13

Local weather forecasts from local television station Web sites are generally less accurate than those from major weather Web sites.

Question 14

Today the line between yellow and white pages directories is blurred and you can find both people and business contact information in both.

Question 15

A wire service gathers and distributes news to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, and other organizations.

Question 16

Due to their large size, digital audio books have been slow to gain popularity.

Question 17

The THOMAS Web site is a serious research tool that provides access to the full text of bills that are before the U.S. Congress.

Question 18

Some sites may list your personal information even if you have an unpublished or unlisted telephone number.

Question 19

Because of how they retrieve their data, search engines don't allow you to filter search results by date.

Question 20

Web directories usually include more recent listings because the editorial review process of many Search engines takes time to complete.

Question 21

____ guides are Web sites that provide information on hotels, restaurants, entertainment, cultural activities, and other things to do in a destination city.

A) City
B) Sentry
C) Info
D) Country

Question 22

The Internet Archive's Lookback Machine provides researchers with a series of snapshots of Web pages as they were at various points in the history of the Web. _________________________

Question 23

The MIDI format records information about each element of a sound-including its pitch, length, and volume-in a digital format. _________________________

Question 24

To identify content and provide a persistent link, online journals, articles, reports, and white papers can be assigned a unique alphanumeric string of characters, called a daily object identifier (DOI). _________________________

Question 25

In the United States, works of intellectual property that were created after 1977 are protected for the life of the author plus 70 years. _________________________

Question 26

To combat the growing issue of plagiarism, academic instructors, researchers, publishers, and others have turned to Web resources. _________________________

Question 27

The Weather Channel's Web site can produce local weather pages containing current conditions, a forecast, and a Doppler radar image. _________________________

Question 28

Once the term of a copyright has expired, a work is in private possession. _________________________

Question 29

Most search engines enable you to search for Web sites that have been modified recently. This feature is usually included as a filter option on the sites' ____ search pages.

A) mirrored
B) advanced
C) basic
D) common

Question 30

Web sites that offer free files for noncommercial use often carry a restriction against selling or redistributing those files. _________________________

Question 31

Sites like YouTube and Hulu are devoted to audio distribution. _________________________

Question 32

City guides are Web sites that provide information on hotels, restaurants, entertainment, cultural activities, and other things to do in a destination city. _________________________

Question 33

When you want to find a map or driving directions, you visit the ____ Web site.

A) Google Maps
B) Bing Maps
C) either a. or b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 34

In a(n) streaming transmission, the streamed transmission begins playing before it finishes downloading. _________________________

Question 35

You can use Web sites called ____ pages directories to locate people, obtain their postal address, phone number, and email address.

A) red
B) yellow
C) blue
D) white

Question 36

____ pages directories are Web sites that provide information on businesses, such as a description, address, phone number, Web site address, and reviews.

A) Red
B) Yellow
C) Blue
D) White

Question 37

Online directory Web sites include listings of businesses and people, much like the printed telephone books. _________________________

Question 38

PayPal is a global online payment company people can use to send or receive secure payments without sharing their personal financial information. _________________________

Question 39

Thomson Reuters is one of the Web's largest online search engines. _________________________

Question 40

When using an APA citation, cite the author by using the Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial format. _________________________

Question 41

On eBay, for a ____ listing, the first person willing to pay the indicated price gets the item.

A) Buy It Now
B) Buy It First
C) Buy It Fast
D) Buy It Cheap

Question 42

A news ____ Web site collects and displays content from a variety of online news sources, including wire services, print media, broadcast outlets, and even blogs, and displays it in one place.

A) collection
B) aggregation
C) robot
D) archive

Question 43

Map sites provide an abundance of information about places. The maps can show a broad overview of a region or state, and they can be ____ to display detailed maps of a city or neighborhood.

A) zagged
B) minimized
C) zoomed
D) zigged

Question 44

With ____ results to searches, businesses pay a fee to have their contact information and ads placed higher in the search results.

A) sponsored
B) elective
C) graded
D) wiki

Question 45

E-commerce, or electronic commerce, refers to the process of ____ products and services online.

A) developing
B) marketing
C) servicing
D) all of the above

Question 46

The term "blog" is short for ____.

A) backlog
B) biographical log
C) Web log
D) Best Links On Google

Question 47

Many online white pages and yellow pages directories are also available as ____ apps for smartphones.

A) common
B) mini
C) mobile
D) social

Question 48

The following are all major wire services EXCEPT ____.

A) UPI
B) AP
C) Interfax
D) Agence France-Presse

Question 49

Pierre Omidyar founded ____ in 1995 as AuctionWeb, creating a marketplace for individuals to exchange goods.

A) Craigslist
B) eBay
C) Google
D) Yahoo!

Question 50

____ is a global online payment company people can use to send or receive secure payments without sharing their personal financial information.

A) PayNow
B) PayBuddy
C) PayPal
D) PayTime

Question 51

____ is probably the most famous wiki in the world.

A) Wikipedia
B) Google Wiki
C) Wikiworld
D) Wikibook

Question 52

A(n) ____ is a Web site that allows multiple users to contribute content and edit existing content.

A) wiki
B) blog
C) e-zine
D) search engine

Question 53

A number of companies, such as National ____ and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service, provide weather conditions and forecasts on their Web sites.

A) Oceanic
B) Sea
C) Air
D) Navy

Question 54

Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos in ____ to sell books on the Web.

A) 1990
B) 1995
C) 2000
D) 2005

Question 55

All of the following host popular Web sites offering weather information and forecasting EXCEPT ____.

A) Weather Underground
B) AccuWeather
C) Hubble Climate
D) NOAA's National Weather Service

Question 56

Search engines can perform date-filtered searches because when Web servers send a Web page to a ____, they include a header that contains information about the Web page, such as the date it was last modified.

A) browser
B) search engine's Web robot
C) either a. or b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 57

Some common travel guide sites are Let's Go Travel, ____ Planet Travel Guides and Travel Information, and TripAdvisor.

A) Connected
B) Friendly
C) Lonely
D) Happy

Question 58

A Web site's ____ appears in the address or location bar.

A) URL
B) HTTP
C) FTP
D) icon

Question 59

A wire service is also known as a ____.

A) PR plan
B) Web directory
C) wiki
D) press agency

Question 60

Today, craigslist is a network of more than 700 local sites in ____ countries that features free online classified advertisements with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, resumes, and discussion forums.

A) 20
B) 50
C) 70
D) 100

Question 61

Failure to cite the source of research material that you use is called ____.

A) fair use
B) plagiarism
C) libel
D) tort

Question 62

A collection of facts can be copyrighted, but only if the collection is ____ in a way that causes the resulting work to rise to the level of an original work.

A) arranged
B) coordinated
C) selected
D) any of the above

Question 63

Using APA citation, the date you view a page is presented in ____ format.

A) day, month, year
B) month, day, year
C) year, month, day
D) year, day, month

Question 64

Claiming someone else's work as your own is a serious legal violation that can lead to ____.

A) a failing grade
B) a hefty fine
C) prosecution
D) any of the above

Question 65

Intellectual property rights offer protections afforded by ____.

A) a grassroots Web organization
B) governments
C) the W3C
D) corporations

Question 66

____ is a general term that includes all products of the human mind, including original ideas.

A) Web flotsam
B) The Superego
C) Intellectual property
D) Copyright

Question 67

In the U.S., a work that was created in 2000 by an individual author who died in 2005 will be protected by copyright until ____.

A) 2075
B) 2070
C) 2100
D) 2120

Question 68

In the U.S., ____ laws allow people to use copyrighted works under some conditions.

A) fair use
B) invisible use
C) public domain
D) intellectual use

Question 69

You may play a clip of copyrighted music that is up to ____ long and have it still considered fair use.

A) 5 seconds
B) 30 seconds
C) 1 minute
D) There is no hard and fast rule.

Question 70

Copyright protection exists when the work is ____.

A) published
B) unpublished
C) both a. and b.
D) neither a. nor b.

Question 71

The literal definition of "copyright" is ____.

A) the true, "right" copy of something
B) "writing copy" -- the act of authorship
C) the legal right to earn money by writing
D) the right to copy one's own work

Question 72

When preparing a research report based on material gained from the Web, citing your Web sources is ____.

A) an admirable, but hopeless goal, since Web sites change so frequently
B) as important as citing traditional printed material
C) not necessary, as all material on the Web is free of copyright and accessible to all anyway
D) dangerous, as hackers can follow the trail of sites you've visited and gain personal information

Question 73

When a copyright for a work has expired, the work is then said to be in the ____.

A) dustbin
B) private realm
C) "shareware stage"
D) public domain

Question 74

If a play was written in the U.S. 200 years ago, but performed and videotaped by a stage troupe today, the tape of today's performance is ____.

A) public domain
B) considered live "shareware"
C) protectable under copyright laws
D) illegal and must be immediately destroyed

Question 75

Intellectual property includes creations presented in a form that can be shared or that others can ____.

A) recreate
B) emulate
C) manufacture
D) any of the above

Question 76

Fair use of copyrighted work includes using it for ____.

A) background music behind an unrelated documentary movie
B) profit
C) tactically depriving the owner of benefits from his or her work
D) criticism

Question 77

____ is a Web site that checks a submitted paper against 14 billion Web pages, 150 million student papers, and millions of articles from leading library databases and publications, and then determines how much of the paper is unoriginal.

A) HomeworkCentral
B) PaperPreview
C) Turnitin
D) TeachersPet

Question 78

In the U.S., works created for hire are protected for ____ years from the date of publication.

A) 70
B) 100
C) 95
D) 120

Question 79

The Web page ____ will usually appear directly above the main content of the page.

A) title
B) page number
C) date
D) author

Question 80

On a Web page, intellectual property includes ____.

A) images on the page
B) text on the page
C) the design of the page itself
D) all of the above