BTEC 2012
Unit 1 – The Online World
Name: …………………………………….
Lesson 7 – Worldwide Web
(Student Book B – Pg 4 - 7)
TASK A
1. Who developed the Worldwide Web? And in what year?
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2. What is the WWW?
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3. How is the Internet different from the WWW?
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4. What does HTML stand for?
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5. Name three example HTML tags and explain why they come in pairs.
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BTEC 2012
Unit 1 – The Online World
Name: …………………………………….
Task B
1. What does URL stand for and what is it?
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2. Name the following URL parts for the following link.
http://www.iteach.org.uk/btec2012/unit13/task2/index.html
3. Look at the following table and identify the different domain types. For each one, describe what sort
of website would be commonly found using each type.
Type of Website found
using domain type.
Domain Type
Description
.co.uk
.net
.org
.com
.fr
.de
.ac
.gov
.edu
.ru
United Kingdom Company Companies based in the UK
4. How is a search engine different from a ‘normal’ website?
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BTEC 2012
Unit 1 – The Online World
Name: …………………………………….
5. Name the following sections highlighted below.
1 – Search
Bar
2 – Advertised
3 – Ordinary
Search Results
Search Results
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6. What does HTML and URL stand for?
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