Information Literacy Quiz

Please post a comment to this blog with your answers to the questions below. We will look at the answers together in class today. 1. List 4 major search engines and a major directory. 2. What is a blog? 3. Why might you use quotation marks when conducting a search? 4. URL is an acronym for… 5. Identify three Boolean search terms. 6. How do you find the owner or publisher of a Web site? 7. Identify these extensions and what they represent: .org .com .sch .k12 .edu .gov .ac .net .mil .co 8. How do you find out who is linked to your school’s Web site? 9. What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site? 10. Search terms are available for purchase on the Internet. How would you find out how much the phrase “global warming” is worth? 11. How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa? (Hint: South Africa’s country code is .za) 12. How do you find the history of any given Web site? 13. How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle? 14. How do sites get to the top of a result list in Google?