Communication Gr 4 Term 4

Question 1

Name 7 of the oldest forms of communications

Answer 1

Language
Speaking and listening
Writing and reading 
Symbols
Songs
Art
Dance

Question 2

A symbol is…..

Answer 2

A picture or sign that has meaning

Question 3

What can songs communicate

Answer 3

Songs tell stories and give information through the words of the songs

Question 4

What is art

Answer 4

Communication through pictures

Question 5

What is the oldest example of art

Answer 5

Pictures made on rocks by thee early San people

Question 6

How does dance communicate

Answer 6

It is often used to tell a story. It can show how people feel

Question 7

How did the early San people use dance

Answer 7

As per of their religious practises

Question 8

Where did the San believe the sun can from

Answer 8

A boys armpit

Question 9

Why did the San make up stories and songs

Answer 9

They used stories and songs to explain how the world around them had come to be

Question 10

What kind of communication is rock art

Answer 10

The San used rock art to symbolise and communicate their religious beliefs

Question 11

What was a shaman

Answer 11

A shaman was a healer

Question 12

What are 3 things that shamans and healers could do

Answer 12

They could draw illness out of people
They could draw worries out of people
They could heal people
They could go into a trance

Question 13

What is a trance

Answer 13

It is when you feel like you’re in a dream but you’re actually awake

Question 14

What happened to healers and shamans in trance

Answer 14

They leaned forward because they felt ‘boiling energy’ in their stomachs
They sweated
They bled from the nose
They felt as if they had become and looked like, animals

Question 15

Modern communication is often….

Answer 15

Electronic

Question 16

What are some more modern ways of communicating

Answer 16

The postal system
Radio
Typewriters
Telegraph
Telephone 
Camera
Television

Question 17

What does telegraph mean

Answer 17

It means far writer

Question 18

How does a telephone work

Answer 18

The telephone changes sounds into electrical signals. The signals travel along the wires or cables to a receiver. When the electrical signals reach the receiver they are changed back into sounds

Question 19

How does morse code work

Answer 19

The code is made up of short and long pulses of electricity along a telegraph wire. Each letter of the alphabet has a different code. The person at the post office receiving the coded message would then turn the code into a written text that could be read

Question 20

What was a post office stone

Answer 20

A stone that ships would leave letters under for the next ship to take home

Question 21

A radio works with

Answer 21

Air waves

Question 22

Type writer letters must be written backwards because

Answer 22

They’ll print the right way round when they’re pressed against the paper

Question 23

To make photographs you need

Answer 23

A camera with light sensitive film, and special photo paper

Question 24

The internet is

Answer 24

A work wide network of computers, sites and services like email

Question 25

What things that make tv and photographs such powerful forms of communication

Answer 25

Photographs keep memories for a long time
You can watch something happening far away on television
Television is a way to send out warnings to people

Question 26

What does the work of a typewriter today

Answer 26

A computer

Question 27

What 3 modern ways of communication need electricity or batteries to working

Answer 27

Phone
Computer
Ipad

Question 28

What are 5 things you can do with a cell phone

Answer 28

Message
Take photos
Phone people
Email
Sending photos

Question 29

What is computer information called

Answer 29

Data

Question 30

What does telephone mean

Answer 30

Far sound

Question 31

Who invented moveable type

Answer 31

Johann Guttenberg in 1440

Question 32

Why was moveable type an important invention

Answer 32

It could be used to make copies so that everything didn’t have to be hand written