Input/Output
Computer Basics
Internals
Acronyms
Binary Code
100
Computer monitor
What is an output device?
100

The computer case where everything is stored.

What is a tower or case?

100
Takes electricity from your house and converts it into a current that works for your computer.
What is a power supply?
100
RAM
What is Random access memory?
100
Binary is made up of these two numbers
What is 1 and 0?
200
Keyboard
What is an input device
200
Short for Compact Disc - Read Only Memory, this device reads disc-media
What is a CD-ROM?
200
Gets its name because it is like a mother to all of the other circuit boards.
What is a motherboard?
200
CD-ROM
What is Compact Disc - Read Only Memory
200
The memory chips inside your computer are divided into thousands of tiny compartments called this.
What are bits?
300
Laser printer
What is an output device
300
This device copies a picture or document into the computer.
What is a scanner?
300
The brain of a computer that controls information and tells other parts what to do.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
300
CPU
What is Central Processing Unit?
300
1000 bytes = 1_ _
What is KB (kilobyte)?
400

Mouse

What is an input device

400
This device stores only 700MBs of data, a lot less than a DVD
What is a CD?
400
Wakes up the computer when you turn it on and reminds it what parts it has and what they do.
What is Basic Input Output System or BIOS?
400
KB
What is kilobyte?
400
1,000,000,000 bytes = 1 _ _
What is GB?
500
Webcam
What is an input device?
500
The size of a DVD disc
What is 7 GB?
500
Remembers what you tell it, but when the computer is turned off it forgets everything.
What is RAM?
500
TB
What is terabyte?
500

In binary code, 8 bits make this up.   

What is a byte?

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