What is it?
How does it work?
History
Environmental impact
100

What is the purpose of a motherboard?

What connects all the parts of a computer together, allowing them to interact?

100

How many RAM slots are typically on a motherboard

What is 2-4 slots?

100

Before the motherboard was invented, this was what was used instead, acting in place of the motherboard.

What is backplane?

100

How is mining bad for the environment?

What is habitat destruction

What is water pollution

What is soil erosion

What is pH lowering in water

200

True or False: VIA Technologies developed the Mini-ITX, Nano-ITX, and Pico-ITX motherboard 

What is true?

200

What HDD and SSD stand for

What are Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Drive?

200

This is the year when the first motherboard was created.

When is1981?

200

What is toxic leaching?

What is E-waste in the environment

300

True or False: Pico-ITX is the largest motherboard in the ITX series, measuring twice the size of a Nano-ITX board.

What is False; Mini ITX is the largest in ITX series

300

What a packet collision is

What is it called when the packets (small segments of a larger message containing information) sent out from different devices collide and the electrical signals (0s and 1s, photons) get jumbled up?

300

Intel released this motherboard model which is still in use today.

What is an ATX Model?

300

What does SAC alloy stand for?

What is tin-silver-lead alloy

400

These two materials are mainly used in manufacturing a PCB.

What are fiberglass and copper?

400

Firmware

What instructs the computer what to do once it is turned on, loading the operating system and allowing the computer to interact with external devices? It gives basic operating instructions to hardware, like software for hardware. It is mainly for starting the computer and communication.

400

What is a 1984 IBM release which was the fourth model in the PC line?

What is IBM PC/AT?

400

What are some health effects of being exposed to toxic leaching?

What is

- Reproductive problems

- Brain damage

- Cancer

500

What does an ATE machine in the manufacturing process?

What is tests the motherboard through electrical pulses?

500

List five kinds of external connectors and their uses

USB ports that enable data transfer between the computer and other devices?

Ethernet (LAN) ports that enable ethernet and LAN connection?

Audio jacks that transmit audio signals?

HDMI or display ports that transmit video and audio information?

PS/2 ports that connect the mouse and keyboard to an IBM compatible computer?

500

This 2003 data communication standard was introduced by multiple companies including Intel, Dell, HP, etc.

What is PCI Express?

500

What is EPEAT?

What is Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool?

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