Computer Terms
Parts of a Computer
Online Safety
Microsoft Word
Keyboarding
100
The background behind all of your windows, menus and dialog boxes, and icons.
What is The desktop?
100
This is the part of the computer you type on.
What is the keyboard?
100
When you are nice to others online you are using good.....
What is netiquette?
100
The key you press along with the letter to make it a capital..
What is the shift key?
100
This is the part of the keyboard your fingers stay on when you are typing.
What are The Home Row Keys?
200
This is usually called the Brains of the Computer..
What is the CPU or Central Processing Unit.?
200
The hardware part of the computer you Save all your work in?
What is the Hard Drive?
200
Never do this with someone you just met online?
What is meet them in person?
200
This is the tab on the top of the tool bar you go to insert a shape or picture on your document. Hint: the answer is in the question
What is the insert tab?
200
The key you press to type in all uppercase letters?
What is Caps Lock?
300
The blinking line or shape on the screen that tells you where the text will go
What is the cursor?
300
The part of the computer that contains most of the components of a computer like the CPU and Hard Drive.
What is the CPU Tower?
300
If something or someone online ever makes you feel sad, scared, or confused, do this....
What is tell a trusted adult?
300
When you remove a word and put it somewhere else on the page you are doing this...
What is cut and paste?
300
When you click the square at the top of a window so that the window expands to the full screen..
What is maximize?
400
The small picture on the desktop that represents a program, file or folder
What is an icon?
400
This computer part is used to display the images and shows you what your doing.
What is a monitor?
400
Never give out this information online... Hint: 3 things!
What is your name, address and phone number?
400
The key you press to move your cursor to the next line.
What is the enter key?
400
When you click the minus sign at the top of a window to put the window down on the task bar..
What is Minimize?
500
The strip at the bottom of the screen that contains the start button, shows which programs you have open, and shows the date and time
What is the task bar?
500
This is the bar at the top of the internet window where you type in where you want to go on the internet.
What is the address bar.
500
This is a person who uses the computer to upset someone on purpose
What is a cyber bully?
500
To make sure the work you are doing stays on your computer so you can view it at a later time you might do this- go to File, then....
What is save as...
500
The key you press to delete a character to the left of the cursor.
What is the backspace key?
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