Communication through Time

Question 1

What is communication?

Answer 1

Communication is sharing information

Question 2

Name 2 ways we communicate through language

Answer 2

Speaking, writing, singing

Question 3

Name one way of communicating without words

Answer 3

Dancing, drawing, painting

Question 4

How do we use our bodies to communicate?

Answer 4

The clothes and jewellery we wear, our gestures and posture communicate without words

Question 5

Name three ways the San communicated

Answer 5

Any three: Language, symbols, songs, art and dance

Question 6

What does the San motto of South Africa ‘!ke e:/xarra//ke’ translate as?

Answer 6

People who are different join together

Question 7

What were the San’s shell necklaces used for?

Answer 7

They were used to communicate which family group the wearer belonged to.

Question 8

What was the person who could communicate with the San god /Kaggen called?

Answer 8

The shaman

Question 9

How did the San people help their shaman communicate with /Kaggen?

Answer 9

Through a ritual dance

Question 10

What was painted on rock walls to communicate that it was painted during a rain-making dance?

Answer 10

A large animal

Question 11

What did people use long ago to send letters?

Answer 11

People on ships placed letters under postal stones at a port.

Question 12

What do you need to send a letter today?

Answer 12

A stamp

Question 13

Who contributed most to the development of the radio?

Answer 13

Mr Marconi

Question 14

Why is a radio sometimes called a “wireless”?

Answer 14

It is called a wireless because it sends radio signals called radio waves without using wires.

Question 15

What is the keyboard layout of typewriters and computers called?

Answer 15

QWERTY

Question 16

Why was the QWERTY keyboard developed?

Answer 16

Typewriter keys would jam if the typist typed too quickly so the most common letters were spaced apart to slow the typist down.

Question 17

Who invented the telegraph?

Answer 17

Samuel Morse

Question 18

What is the language that telegraphs were sent in called?

Answer 18

Morse code

Question 19

Explain why the telegraph was difficult to use.

Answer 19

The sender and receiver both had to know Morse code; it was difficult to correct an error; it was time consuming so only very short messages could be sent.

Question 20

Who was the first man to develop a telephone that everyone could use?

Answer 20

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 21

How does the telephone work?

Answer 21

The telephone sends sound waves along electrical wires

Question 22

What was the first portable camera called?

Answer 22

The Kodak

Question 23

What did early cameras use to capture photographs?

Answer 23

Film

Question 24

How did television change the way people received news?

Answer 24

Television allowed people to see events as they happened live.

Question 25

What does the word revolution mean?

Answer 25

Revolution means a big change

Question 26

Who was one of the most important people of the computer revolution?

Answer 26

Bill Gates

Question 27

True or false: Everyone could have a computer at home when computers were first invented.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

What does the internet allow us to do?

Answer 28

Send and receive emails and find and share information.

Question 29

Name two differences between the first cell phones and modern cell phones

Answer 29

The first cell phones were very big; the first cellphones could only make voice calls, modern cellphones can send messages, emails, search the internet, take photographs, listen to music and play games

Question 30

Name one of the inventors of the first cell phone

Answer 30

Martin Cooper

Question 31

True or False: Bill Gates founded Apple Computers

Answer 31

False. Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft.