Vocabulary
The Central Processing Unit, also known as the "brains" of the computer, that carries out instructions of a computer program.
CPU
What is a secret word for accessing your documents?
Password
Invented logarithms called Napier Rods, which was a card board multiplication calculator that used tables to find the solutions.
John Napier
Used in Babylon 2000 years before the Greeks used it to help with calculating. To use it, you slide the beads up and down on the rods to add and subtract.
Abacus
Where do you search for things in Chrome?
The URL box
A plug-and-play portable storage device that uses flash memory, also known as a USB stick/ thumb drive.
Flash Drive
A way of being cruel to others by sending or posting harmful material or engaging in other forms of social aggression using the internet or other digital technologies.
Cyberbullying
French mathematician and philosopher that, in 1645, invented the first calculator to help with collecting taxes. It could only add and subtract by rotating dials.
Blaise Pascal
Invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1810. Emphasized 3 computer concepts: Instructions, Simple Program, and Automate Job
Jacquard's Loom
How do you bookmark something in Chrome?
The Star
A unit of packaged computer circuitry that is manufactured from a material, such as silicon, at a very small scale.
Microchip
A software program capable of reproducing itself and infecting a computer without permission or knowledge of the user--might corrupt or delete data.
Virus
In 1674, invented the Stepped Reckoner, which was a mechanical calculator that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
A machine invented by Charles Babbage in the 1800s that was able to compute tables of numbers, such as logarithm tables. It was fully automatic and commanded by a fixed instruction program.
Analytical Engine
What do you call the things across the top of the Chrome browser?
Tabs
The main circuit board of the computer system's main components--includes the CPU, memory, and connectors for input and output devices.
Motherboard
In this crime, someone obtains the vital information of another person (credit card, social security number, bank account numbers, etc.), usually to steal money.
Identity Theft
In 1976, started his company "Apple" with another college dropout named Steve Wozniak.
Steve Jobs
The first electromechanical, punch-card data processing machine, invented by Dr. Herman Hollerith, that was used to compile data for the US census in 1890.
Hollerith's Tabulating Machine
Instead of storing programs and applications on an internal hard drive like most laptops, a majority of its apps run from the ____.
Cloud
Local Access Network that interconnects computers within a limited area, such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building, using network media.
LAN
A wide variety of software installed on people's computers, which collects information about you without your knowledge or consent and sends it back to whoever wrote the program. It will typically track computer use and create numerous pop-up ads. In some instances, it can damage the computer and facilitate identity theft.
Spyware
In 1998, created the online search engine "Google" with Sergey Brin.
Larry Page
*First Generation machine developed by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania for military needs. It used 18,000 vacuum tubes and a punch-card input. Also known as the "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer".
ENIAC
Name the 7 Google apps on a Chromebook.
1. Google Drive
2. Google Docs
3. Google Slides
4. Google Forms
5. Google Sheets
6. Gmail
7. Google Calendar