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

This connector is commonly used to connect printers and external drives? 

What is a USB type-B?

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 the backbone of a computer? 

What is the motherboard

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 type of cable is used to connect hard drives and other storage devices to the mother board? 

What is SATA data & SATA power?

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 the brains of your computer? 

What is CPU?

300

This cable is used for for making network cables? 

What is Twisted pair cables?

the tip for the twisted pair for network cables is the RJ45

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 cable has an inner center conductor and is used for cable and internet?

What is Coax Cable?

400

What does GPU stand for? 

What is Graphics Processing Unit ?

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

What cable was used in older computers to connect hard drives instead of SATA? 

What is IDE?

500
It is what PCI stands for.
What is "Peripheral Component Interface"?
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