What Is A Computer?
What Are Basic Computer Parts?
Button & Ports On A Computer
What's Inside A Computer?
What Are Laptops?
100

An electronic device that manipulates information, or data. It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data.

What is a computer?

100

It lets you point to objects on the screen, click on them, and move them

What Is A Mouse?

100

Used to print documents, photos, and anything else that appears on your screen.

What Is A Printer?

100

Located inside the computer case on the motherboard. It is sometimes called the brain of the computer, and its job is to carry out commands.

What Is A CPU/Processor?

100

An all-in-one design, with a built-in monitor, keyboard, touchpad (which replaces the mouse), and speakers.

What Is A Laptop?

200

Designed to be placed on a desk, and they're typically made up of a few different parts, including the computer case, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

What Is A Desktop Computer?

200

Allows you to type and communicate online with key caps on it.

What Is A Keyboard?

200

a type of input device, or a device that receives information from a user. You can connect this to record sound or talk with someone else over the internet.

What Is A Microphone?

200

the computer's main circuit board. It's where everything is plugged into.

What Is A Motherboard?

200

Allows you to use the laptop when it's not plugged in.

What Is A Battery?

300

Any part of your computer that has a physical structure, such as the keyboard or mouse. It also includes all of the computer's internal parts

What Is Hardware?

300

Works with a video card, located inside the computer case, to display images and text on the screen.

What Is A Monitor?

300

A type of input device that can record videos and take pictures.

What Is A Web Cam?

300

Where your software, documents, and other files are stored. This is long-term storage, aka data is saved even if you turn the computer off or unplug it.

What Is A Hard Drive?

300

USB, PS/2, Serial, Sockets, VGA, Firewall, Modem

What Ports Are In A Laptop?

400

Any set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do and how to do it.

What Is Software?

400

Pad that lets you control the pointer by making a drawing motion with your finger.

What Is A Touchpad?

400

Lets you capture pictures and videos in a digital format.

What Are Digital Cameras?

400

Responsible for what you see on the monitor. Most computers have this built into the motherboard instead of having a separate one.

What Is A GPU/Video Card?

400

A touch-sensitive pad that lets you control the pointer by making a drawing motion with your finger.

What Is A Touchpad?

500

Desktop, Laptop, Tablet Computers, Servers, Smartphones, Wearables, Game Consoles, & TVs.

What Are Different Types Of Computers/Devices?

500

Has a ball that can rotate freely. Instead of moving the device like a mouse, you can roll the ball with your thumb to move the pointer.

What Is A Trackball?

500

Has connection ports that are made to fit specific devices.

What Is On The Back Of A Computer Case?

500

Your system's short-term memory. Whenever your computer performs calculations, it temporarily stores the data in this until it is needed.

What Is Ram?

500

This is designed to be used with that specific type of laptop.

What Is An AC Adapter?