Year 4 Databases Quiz

Which of the following types of information could you store in a database?

• Information about different products in a supermarket

• Information about all of the pupils in a school, including name, date of birth and address

• Information about different countries, including population, climate and language

• All of these!

In a database about dinosaurs, all of the information about a T-Rex would be held on what?

• a field

• a record

• a chart

• a graph

Each record on a database has several different what?

• Different fields

• Different yards

• Different graphs

• Different coordinates

What is a database search called?

• A quest

• An inquest

• An answer

• A query

Imagine an animal database in which each record has these fields: number of legs, habitat, lifespan, diet. Which of the following pieces of information could NOT be found out from the database?

• Whether the animal is a reptile

• Whether the animal inhabits grassland

• Whether the animal eats mice

• Whether the animal has four legs

Which database might you use to help you find your next library book?

• An encyclopedia

• A journal

• A magazine

• A library catalogue

Which fields would you expect to find in a database of library books?

• Author, title, whether your best friend liked the book

• Author, title, colour of cover, book condition, how long it will take to read

• Author, title, genre, number of pages, location

• Author and title only

If you had a database for all the children in Year 4 and you wanted to organise the list of children by date of birth, you would instruct the database to do what?

• Sort

• Randomise

• Alphabetise

• Save

A planet database could be organised in which of the following ways?

• By distance from the sun, in ascending numerical order

• By distance from the sun, in alphabetical order

• By time taken to orbit, in alphabetical order

• All of the above

What is another name for the information held in a database?

• IQ

• Data

• Snippets

• Fun Facts