External Hardware
This displays texts, objects, graphics, photographs, video, and animation on a screen.
What is a monitor?
This is a printed circuit board that is the foundation of a computer, and it is inside of the system unit.
What is the central processing unit?
An electronic machine that takes in data and instructions; works with the data; and puts out information.
What is a computer?
A tiny picture on the screen that represents a program, file or folder.
What is an icon?
A way of sending messages from one computer to another.
What is email?
A device that is used to type text and commands into a computer.
What is a keyboard?
This is on the motherboard and functions as the "brains" of the computer.
What is the motherboard?
This is the language of the computer.
What is machine language?
Millions of computers around the world connected to each other.
What is the Internet?
A software program that lets you explore the World Wide Web.
What is a browser?
A device that "takes a picture" of something and turns it into a computerized image.
What is a scanner?
This is the main memory of the computer and is also known as the C: drive.
What is main memory?
This is the binary digit zero and one.
What is a bit?
The part of the Internet that consists of pages linked to each other around the world. These pages have pictures, sounds, and more.
What is the world wide web?
To get a file from someone else's computer, over a network, and save it on your own computer or storage device.
What is download?
Another word for components that add functionality to a computer system.
What is a peripheral?
This holds the instructions that tell the computer how to begin to load its operating system.
What is read only memory?
This is a string of eight zeros and ones.
What is a byte?
The address of a website on the World Wide Web.
What is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator)?
This allows people to select text, icons, and menu items on the computer screen to choose commands and files and to start application software.
What is Graphical User Interface (GUI)?
A device or type of expansion card that sends and receives information via a telephone to and from a computer.
What is a modem?
This type of memory enables the computer to hold various content in memory while you are using it and it requires electrical power to exist.
What is random access memory?
These are the two states represented by the binary digit zero and one.
What is an off and on state?
A computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.
What is a local area network (LAN)?
The most important type of system software that manages how a computer's hardware and central processing unit communicate, manages files, and runs application software.
What is operating system?