Database Webquest!

A huge amount of data, or information, that is stored in such a way that computers can organize and retrieve it.

• Database

• Spreadsheet

• File Cabinet

• Word Processing Document

Another word for "data" is "information"

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

All of these processes can be done with data in a database, EXCEPT...

• STORED

• RETRIEVED

• CHANGED

• ANALYZED

• NEVER DELETED

When you use a database to work with data by organizing, retrieving, storing, changing, interpreting, analyzing, or deleting it; this is called...

• data manipulation

• data processing

• working with the data

• being a data "cowboy"

Which of these are ways databases can be used? (4 CORRECT ANSWERS)

• store lists of numbers and statistics

• store scientific data

• store names and addresses

• store text like magazine articles

• store everything in your brain

Before making a database, data collection must happen. What is data collection?

• looking in the Walmart parking lot for data

• making data up

• collecting data with a butterfly net

• gathering of data

All data must be added to a database manually (by hand).

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Some data can be added automatically, using a special computer program

Once data is added to a database, it is NOT possible to search, sort or rearrange it.

• True

• False

How is Britannica School considered a database?

• It stores all of the knowledge known to mankind

• It stores large amounts of educational articles in the form of text

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Where do we encounter a lot of databases?

• at the grocery store

• online

• outside

• playing a video game

Answer explanation

Anytime you go online to search, watch a video, shop, even read email, etc. information about you is stored in multiple databases