Tech Words
This is what you give a computer when you press a key, click a mouse, or speak into it.
What is input
A mistake in your code is called…
What is a bug?
This starts a Scratch program.
What is the green flag?
Before smartphones, people carried this to listen to music.
What is a CD player or Walkman?
I’m always hungry, I must always be fed, but if you give me water I die. What am I?
What is fire?
This is what a computer does in response to instructions or input.
What is output?
Fixing a mistake in your code is called…
What is debugging or debug?
This is the background or screen where your sprites move.
What is the stage?
Before GPS, people used this to find places.
What is a map?
What has keys but can’t open locks?
What is a piano?
A computer is a machine that follows these.
What are instructions or code?
A piece of code that does something by itself is called…
What is a block?
A character or object in Scratch is called…
What is a sprite?
Before texting, people called using this device attached to a wall.
What is a landline phone?
The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
What are footsteps?
This is one instruction that tells a computer what to do.
What is a command?
A group of code blocks that work together is called…
What is a script?
How a sprite looks can be changed using…
What is a costume?
Before Google, people looked up information in these big books.
What are encyclopedias?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
What is an echo?
You move something with your finger or mouse and then let go. These are the actions called…
What are drag and drop?
Something that repeats actions over and over is called…
What is a loop?
A loop in Scratch that never stops is called…
What is a forever block?
Long ago, computers were so large they filled a…
What is a room?
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
What is a map?