Technology Quizzes questions with answers

Q: Digital safety: we respect others in our comments, just as we do in real life

True ✔ — Behind every account is a person with feelings, so a hurtful word in a comment hurts just as it does face to face, and good manners matter everywhere.

Q: What is a program that harms the computer and that we must watch out for called?

A virus — A computer virus is a harmful program that spreads between devices and may damage files or slow the device down, so we don't open unknown files or links.

Q: What is sending a file from your device to the internet called?

Uploading — Uploading is the opposite of downloading: we send a file from our device to a website or email on the internet, as we do when we share a picture with the teacher.

Q: What does a mouse do?

Controls the on-screen pointer and clicks — The mouse is an input device: we move it and the pointer moves on the screen, and we click its buttons to open programs and select things.

Q: A camera is one of a computer's output devices.

False ✖ — A camera captures pictures and video and puts them into the device, so it is an input device, not an output device.

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Q241: Digital safety: we respect others in our comments, just as we do in real life

Answer: True ✔

💡 Behind every account is a person with feelings, so a hurtful word in a comment hurts just as it does face to face, and good manners matter everywhere.

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Q242: What is a program that harms the computer and that we must watch out for called?

Answer: A virus

💡 A computer virus is a harmful program that spreads between devices and may damage files or slow the device down, so we don't open unknown files or links.

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Q243: What is sending a file from your device to the internet called?

Answer: Uploading

💡 Uploading is the opposite of downloading: we send a file from our device to a website or email on the internet, as we do when we share a picture with the teacher.

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Q244: What does a mouse do?

Answer: Controls the on-screen pointer and clicks

💡 The mouse is an input device: we move it and the pointer moves on the screen, and we click its buttons to open programs and select things.

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Q245: A camera is one of a computer's output devices.

Answer: False ✖

💡 A camera captures pictures and video and puts them into the device, so it is an input device, not an output device.

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