Year 8
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will learn how to encode, transmit, and decode short messages using a variety of coding schemes and communication medium (signals, light, sounds, holes in paper, etc.). We will understand that text representation uses sequences of symbols.
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5 Questions
Q1.
Decode the following message:- -…|.-|-…|-…|.-|--.|.
Buzzard
Cabbage
Q2.
What does ASCII stand for?
African Standard Code for Information Interchange
Alternative Scheme Codes for Information Interchange
Q3.
Which of the following equipment can be used to transmit message? (Tick 4 boxes)
Fan
Milk
Sharpener
Q4.
Rules that allow two or more parties to transmit a message is called?
Communication arrangement
Communication treaty
Q5.
An image in a computer is represented as a sequence of?
Series of dits and dahs
Series of dots