Chapter 6 ITEC Quiz
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- sampling
- ADC uses a technology called _________ to encode a sound waive as binary numbers.
- Digital audio
- _______ is any type of sound, including voice, music, and sound effects, recorded and stored digitlly as a series of 1s and 0s.
- Ripper
- _______ software can be used to translate your favorite music CDs to MP3 files on your hard drive.
- Tagged Image File Format
- Which of the following file formats is an industrial-strength format used by many professional photographers and graphic artists?
- Rendering
- _________ is the process of calculating the light interaction with the virtual 3D models in the scene and presenting the final drawing in two dimensions to be viewed on the screen or printed.
- Jukebox
- ________ software allows computer users to categorize and organize their digital music files for easy access.
- Forensic graphics
- _______ is used to create animations and exhibits to use in courts of law to explain theories and present evidence.
- MP3
- The ________ file format compresses CDA music files to less than 10 percent of their original size.
- Pixilation
- ________ or fuzziness, occurs when bit-mapped images are made larger than the size at which they are captured.
- Windows bitmap
- _________ format is used by the Windows operating ystem and recognized by most graphics software.
- synthesizer
- A(n) _______ electronically produces sounds designed to be similar to the sounds of real instruments; they can also produce new sounds unlike any that a traditional instrument could produce.
- Multitrack recording
- __________ devices treat each instrument or microphone as a separate input, or track.
- Sound compression
- ________ removes those frequencies that are beyond the range of human hearing and in so doing reduce the size of the digital music file.
- sequencer
- A(n) _________ allows musicians to create multitrack recordings with a minimal investment in equipment.
- digital to analog conversion
- Digitized sound is transformed back into its analog form in a process called _______.
- podcast
- A ________ is an MP3 audio file that contains a recorded broadast distributed over the Internet.
- Digital media
- _________ encompass digital technologies of all kinds that serve and support digital music, video, and graphics.
- Avars
- ______ are points on the object that are designed to bend or pivot at specific angles.
- Vector graphics
- ________ use(s) bytes to store geometric descriptions that define all the shapes in the image.
- encoder
- Digital music files can be transferredfrom one format to another using _______ software.
- MIDI cards
- _______ allow computers to be connected to digital musicdevices and are available for Windows PCs; they are included as standard equipment in most Apple computers.
- raster graphics
- Bitmapped graphics are also referred to as _________.
- Vlog
- ________ is the video version of a blog.
- Satellite radio
- _______ is a form of digital that receives broadcast signals via a communications satellite.
- sampler
- A _________ digitally records real musical instrument sounds and allows them to be played back at various pitches using an electronic keyboard.
- Digital graphics
- _______ refers to computer-based media applications that support creating, editing, and viewing 2D and 3D images and animation.
- virtual reality
- When interactive media incorporates 3D graphic animation, the result is __________.
- analog to digital conversion
- One way of quantifying sound is to represent sound waves with numbers, digitally, through a process called _________.
- ray tracing
- Three-demensional modeling is often referred to as ______ because the software must trace beams of light as they would interact with the models in the real world.
- On-demand media
- ________ refers to the ability to view or listen to programming or music at any time rather than at a time dictated by television and radio schedules.
- MIDI
- The _______ protocol was implemented in 1983 to provide a standard language for digital music devicesto use in communicating with each other.
- Digital music
- _______ is a subcategory of digital audio that involves recording and storing music.
- Graphics Interchange Format
- Which of the following file formats is the standard for the Web?
- Video game consoles
- __________ such as such as the Nintendo GameCube, the Sony Playstation 2 (PS2), and Microsoft's Xbox, are high-powered multiprocessor computers designed to support 3D interactive multimedia.
- digital rights management
- The technology invented to protect intellectual property in digital files is called _________.