Meteorology 1020

Met1020 - Internet Assignment Internet Assignment 1

The World Wide Web provides access to more information on climate change than you can possibly deal with. Searching and sifting through this information can be time consuming. Many search engines have been developed to reduce the effort required to find a particular subject. However, the output from such searches can often take considerable time to evaluate.

The purpose of this assigment is to help you understand why the Internet Companion helps to organize information on climate change. This will be accomplished by having you search for information using many of the Web search engines available.

Enter your response to each question in the blanks provided. The cursor has to be in the box in order to enter a response. Be sure to fill out all of the fields.
Then click submit when you are finished to hand in your answers. If you click the "back" button at the top of the screen, all text you have written will be lost.

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Searching for Major Topics

(1) Search for the following (2) list in the space below how many entries were found and (3) browse and describe very briefly one entry obtained from your search:

Climate

Climate Change (how do you search so that you both words must be found?)

Environment

Ozone hole

Deforestation

Global warming

Searching for Subjects in On-Line Magazines
Many news magazines have Web versions available on-line. Access one of them (you figure out how to find one) and locate a recent news article related to climate change. Summarize the article very briefly below. Be sure to indicate where the information was obtained (web address).

Due Date January 29, 2000
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