Part of the internet with linked pages, picture, sounds, videos, etc. Most business need one to advertise their companies.
What is a website?
100
The device that moves the cursor around your screen.
What is a mouse (or trackpad)?
200
The most important part of the computer. It is the processor, the 'Brains' of the computer, the System Unit.
What is the CPU?
200
The programs that run on a computer.
What is software?
200
A data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.
What is a USB Flash/thumb drive?
200
To get a file from another computer across a network, what you do in order to get something from a website and copy it to your computer.
What is download?
200
The device you use to type letters on the screen.
What is a keyboard?
300
8 bits
What is a byte?
300
The program you would use to put data in rows and columns (spreadsheet).
What is Excel?
300
A portable disc that stores about read-only information, usually a movie or music, sometimes games or other software.
What is a CD/DVD-ROM?
300
A software program you use to explore the web. Examples are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.
What is a browser?
300
Tiny dot of light on the screen/monitor.
What is a pixel?
400
Place on a computer that you can connect devices such as a mouse, keyboard, flash drive...
What is a USB Port?
400
The program you would most likely use to type an essay.
What is Word?
400
A kind of memory that holds files while you are using them.
What is RAM?
400
The collection of hypertext documents called websites connected, to the internet around the world, accessed using a URL, consisting of graphics/videos/audio files.
What is the World Wide Web?
400
The way a wireless device communicates with a computer.
What is by radio waves.
500
A bundle of computer wires made of glass used for faster transfer of data.
What is Fiber Optic Cable?
500
The program you would most likely use to create a presentation with pictures, videos, sounds, and text.
What is PowerPoint?
500
The code used to transfer data between computers made up of 1's and 0's.
What is binary code?
500
Software and services that run on the Internet, instead of locally on your computer.
What is the Cloud?
500
A world wide network of computers, copper wire, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks connected together.