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Basic Terminology Category
Software and Hardware
Saving
The Web
More Terminology
100
The smallest unit of information storage.
What is a bit?
100
The parts of the computer that you can touch
What is hardware?
100
keyboard shortcut for saving
What is a command + s
100
Part of the internet with linked pages, picture, sounds, videos, etc.
What is the web?
100
A tiny picture on the screen
What is an icon?
200
The most important part of the computer. It is the "Brain"
What is the CPU?
200
The programs that run on a computer
What is software?
200
A portable diskette to store information on. Not used very often anymore.
What is a floppy?
200
To get a file from another computer across a network
What is download?
200
A program that lets you make a presentation and collaborate with others without physically talking.
What is Google Presentation
300
8 bits
What is a byte?
300
A document that puts data in rows and columns
What is a spreadsheet?
300
Where your work stored is stored when using a google program.
What is the cloud?
300
A software program you use to explore the web. Examples are Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
What is a browser?
300
the smallest piece of a picture
What is a pixel?
400
A small external storage device
What is a Flash Drive (USB)
400
The program you would most likely use to type an essay.
What is Word?
400
A kind of memory that holds files while you are using them
What is RAM?
400
To communicate with someone by typing rather than talking face-to-face.
What is chat or texting
400
the hardware that displays what you are doing on the computer.
what is a monitor or screen?
500
A bundle of computer wires.
What is a cable?
500
The program you would most likely use to create a presentation with pictures, videos, sounds, and text
What is PowerPoint?
500
The first time you are saving something in word you use this option.
What is save as?
500
Millions of computer around the world connected by a network of networks
What is the internet?
500
Where a column and row intersect on a table
What is a cell?