This activity will test your understanding of Boolean operators. In Part 1, you will enter the correct Boolean operators into a search statement. In Part 2, you will demonstrate an understanding of how each Boolean operator affects a search statement.

Question 1 options:

Find information on pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. "Chesapeake Bay"

pollut*

Question 2 options:

Find information on the effect of plastics recycling on the environment. (recycle

reuse)

plastics

environment

Question 3 options:

Find information on obedience training and adult dogs.  (dog

canine)

"obedience training"

puppy

Question 4 options:

Find information on renewable energy sources. "renewable energy"

(solar

wind)

Question 5 options:

Find information on diabetes in children. (child*

kids)

diabet*

Part 2

For the following descriptions of Boolean operators, type the Boolean operator (AND, OR, or NOT) that the statement best describes.

Question 6 options:

connects the different keywords in your search by requiring all the search terms to be present.

Question 7 options:

broadens your search by providing alternative keywords to be searched, and only requires that at least one of the search terms be present in the search results that the database or search engine retrieves for you.

Question 8 options:

Some databases use alternative symbols in place of the

connector, such as the plus sign (+).

Question 9 options:

is used to exclude records that contain certain keywords.

Question 10 options:

Using

in a search statement will retrieve records that have any of these keywords/phrases connected by this operator.