Studies Weekly Communication Week 14 - Ohio

Choose the term that best completes the sentence. Scientists use _______ to predict the weather.

• internet

• telegraphs

• satellites

• Morse code

Which invention needs wires to communicate?

• drum

• telegraph

• cell phone

• satellite

How did the typewriter help businesses?

• Communicating became cheaper and easier.

• The number of employees decreased.

• Secretaries could order supplies online.

• There was less competition from other countries.

New communication technologies increase the exchange of informations.

• True

• False

Look at the ways news was delivered long ago and how it is delivered today (tv, internet, etc.)

How has the way people receive information changed?

Choose all that apply. (short answer question)

• slower ways to communicate

• hear news several days later

• the speed of information has not changed

• send and receive things quickly as they happen

What was the first communication invention?

• internet

• satellite

• telegraph

• writing

What basic need can be met by using the internet?

• visiting friends

• playing games

• buying clothes

• sending messages

Which shows the order of ways that people communicate from oldest to newest.

• writing, telegraph, telephone, computer, cell phone

• phone, writing, computer, telegraph, cell phone

• cell phone, computer, telephone, telegraph, writing

How does technology affect the way people communicate?

• it allows people to communicate with others quickly and at a low cost
• it makes people less motivated to communicate with others
• it does not affect the ways people communicate
• it makes it difficult to maintain privacy when communicating with others

"Watson, come over here - I need you." were the first words spoken over a telephone.  Who said these words when he invented the first phone?

• Guglielmo Marconi
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Christopher Sholes
• Samuel Morse