Conducting an Online Search (Quiz)

Which student is using research from tertiary sources in their report?

Aryam, who uses an almanac to figure out weather patterns for farmers.

Which examples are relevant sources for students to use in research? Check all that apply.

a journal entry written by a professor who is considered an expert a report written by an independent government source a document published by a renowned organization a scientific paper put out by a non-profit organization

Which are examples of secondary sources found on the Internet?

biographies and newspaper articles

During the "retrieving" stage, search engines

display stored web addresses related to search terms.

An irrelevant source is one that

includes disputable evidence.

Nina is learning about clouds in her science class so she puts the phrase "types of clouds" in a search engine. In which step of a crawler-based search engine is this phrase most important?

indexing

Secondary sources ----- information gathered from primary sources.

interpret

Amit is researching the science behind a new diet. He typed the name of the diet and the word science into a search engine. The source that would give Amit the most relevant information is a(n)

journal article about the diet written by a government nutritionist.

What do secondary sources rely on for their analysis of events?

primary or secondary sources

Original documents or objects used during Internet research are known as

primary sources.