5.1 · Lesson 3 of 4
How web pages are found and displayed
Syllabus 5.1.5
What this lesson covers
- Explain how a web page is located and displayed
Key vocabulary
- Web server
- A computer that stores web pages and sends them to devices that request them.
- Domain name server (DNS)
- Stores domain names and their matching IP addresses, and converts one into the other.
- IP address
- The address used to find the web server on the internet.
- HTML
- Hypertext markup language: the code web pages are written in, which the browser renders.
- Render
- When the browser turns HTML code into the web page you see.
Check your learning
- Quick check: 4 questions
- Key vocabulary test: 5 terms
- Activity 1: Order the steps · drag and drop
- Activity 2: DNS and web servers quiz · 8 questions
- Activity 3: Who does this? · drag and drop