WorksheetsYear 9 - E-Safety Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
There’s a new app that loads of your friends are using. To create an account you need to set your age as older than you actually are. Your friends keep asking you when you’re joining - what do you do?
Go ahead and create the account. You don’t plan on talking to anyone that you don’t know, so what’s the big deal?
Let your friends know that you’re waiting until you’re old enough. They should understand.
Create the account but make sure your details are private. That way you’ll feel safe.
You are playing an online game and receive a friend request from a username you recognise.
You think it’s someone you know from outside school. What do you do?
Ask them the next time you see them if they sent the request.
Accept the request – you’re pretty sure you know who it is, and can always delete them if you need to.
Ask them a few questions to double check who it is before accepting.
Your parents have posted your latest school photo, to a site that you use too, but you think it’s embarrassing! What do you do?
Explain to your parents in person why you don’t want the picture online, and ask them to take it down.
Report the photo to the site to try and get it taken down.
Get really mad - comment on the photo to let everyone know exactly how you feel!
A friend of yours posts a lot in support of a charity that they’re passionate about, but they’re getting some unkind comments on their posts. You want to support them online but the charity is really not something that you’re in to either. What do you do?
Do nothing, you don’t want to get involved.
Send a rude message to those who are leaving negative comments.
Support them either online or offline when you can, because you know it’s important to them, and report the unkind comments.
You use a wide range of apps and games, and want to change your profile pictures from photos of yourself to cartoon characters. Your friend says this means that you’re being fake online. What do you do?
Change the photos to cartoons, but include more info in your usernames to help your friends to identify you.
Don’t change them. Your friend’s opinion really matters to you.
Change the photos to cartoons as planned. It’s ok to use images that you are not in.
You share a link for an animal rights charity with your friends in a group chat. Some of your friends are upset by what they see. What do you do?
Stand by your decision. Explain that it’s your right to share the things that you care about.
Continue to share things that you think your friends might be interested in, but let them know in advance what the content is about.
Apologise for the upset caused and keep your opinions to yourself in future.
Which of the following best describes “phishing”?
A virus that steals your sensitive information.
An email that attempts to trick you into giving away sensitive information.
An online fishing game.
Which one of these might make you suspicious of an email you have received from a bank?
Urgently asking you to enter your account details into a webpage.
Referring to you by your name.
Informing you that a new product is on offer.
Which one of these does not identify an email as a “phishing” email?
A strange link you are asked to click on.
Information about a new product from a website you have used before.
Poor spelling.
Which of the following is good advice when you are online?
Always settle and argument online.
Share as much personal information as possible.
Block anyone who regularly upsets you.
Which of the following is good advice when you are online?
Be careful not to give out personal information.
Collect as may “friends” as possible.
Never tell an adult if there is a problem online.
Which of the following best describes your “digital footprint”?
Everything you do online can be traced.
How many “friends” you have online.
Your gaming statistics.
What is intellectual property classed as?
An idea that has not been written down.
Things that people have created e.g. books.
Expensive equipment that Scientists use.
What is copyright?
Copying someone else's work to check it is correct.
It stops people from using someone else's work without permission.
Let’s people use someone else's work without permission.
What is plagiarism?
Passing off somebody else's work as your own.
Referencing work in a sources table.
When the copyright owner gives permission for their material to be used.
What will happen if you plagiarise somebody else’s work during your GCSEs?
Nothing.
You would automatically fail the course.
Your work will be referenced using an appropriate format.
When a photo or video is shared on the internet, who potentially might be able to see it?
Anyone.
Just me.
Only people I know.
Is using an avatar instead of a photo for an online profile safe or unsafe?
Safe
Unsafe
