Micro:Bit Quiz

The Easter Bunny and the Mad March Hare are playing a simple, 2 player, Micro:Bit game. The Easter Bunny clicks button A and the Mad March Hare clicks button B. Whoever clicks their button the most in 5 seconds is the winner!

What colour are the variable blocks in their game?

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Which of these is the best definition of a 'variable'?

• a placeholder for information that can change while a program is running

• a value used to keep score in a game

• a number in a program

• a block of code that allows the computer to make choices in a program

When we use a SENSOR with a computing device like Micro:Bit or CuteBot, is the sensor providing INPUT, PROCESS or OUTPUT?

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Which tasks will require the use of sensors and which will not?

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(a) Sensor Needed

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(b) No Sensor Needed

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What is the proper name for making a section of code repeat in a program?

• a selection statement

• a variable

• an event

• a loop

Mrs Mayes has given a P7 pupil punishment lines for talking! The pupil decides to write a program to do the lines automatically. Drag the labels onto the diagram to complete the code the pupil wrote.

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I must not talk in class

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100

What will happen in this program when the user shakes the Micro:Bit?

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The code here shows part of the scoring system for a game. What do players of the game have to do to earn a bonus of 100?

• get 1000 points or more

• change their bonus by 20

• get 500 points or more

• nothing - everyone will earn a bonus of 100

This is the code for a Micro:Bit game. Click on the EVENT HANDLER block in this code.

Complete the sentence below to explain what an "event handler" is.

An event handler block will ​ (a)   code to ​ (b)   when it detects that the task it is ​ (c)   has ​ happened .

• trigger
• run
• waiting for
• delete
• carrying out
• crashed