Basic External Components
Basic Internal Components
Motherboard
Ribbon Cables
Potpourri
100
A small machine usually used to hover around on the screen. It is also a name for a rodent.
What is a Mouse?
100
A long lasting storage where the operating system is located.
What is a Hard drive?
100
It is also another name for a Motherboard.
What is a System board?
100
It contains a twist in its ribbon.
What is a Floppy Drive Controller?
100
It is where the most common storage device of today fits into.
What is a USB slot?
200
Commonly used for typing, this component contains numbers, letters, and symbols.
What is a Keyboard?
200
It is where this obselete storage device fits into.
What is Floppy Drive?
200
A plastic chip that includes various devices such as transistors and wires. This is also what a motherboard is.
What is an Integrated Circuit?
200
This will determine whether your plugged in your Floppy Drive Controller the right way.
What is Green light?
200
This will let you "burn" something onto a disc.
What is a CD/ROM Drive?
300
A computer needs this in order for you to see it at work.
What is a Monitor?
300
It contains just enough energy to save your BIOS settings.
What is CMOS Battery?
300
It is what the Motherboard allows for all computer devices to do.
What is communicate?
300
It is your most important slot that connects your motherboard to your hard drive.
What is Primary IDE?
300
It is the acronym for BIOS.
What is "Basic Input Out System"?
400
Consists of thick wires and converts flowing electricity into a stable direct current.
What is a Power Supply
400
A short term memory device that allows you to run multiple programs at a time.
What is RAM?
400
It allows you to connect your short-term memory device onto the motherboard.
What is Memory slots?
400
This will let your "slave" connect to the motherboard.
What is Secondary IDE?
400
This has replaced AGP slots.
What is PCI?
500
Allows your internal components shelter.
What is a Case?
500
It will keep your processor cool and running.
What is a Heat Sync?
500
It will allow your video card to fit into your motherboard.
What is AGP Slot?
500
It is what modern computers now use instead of IDE controllers.
What is SATA.
500
It is what PCI stands for.
What is "Peripheral Component Interface"?
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