Hardware
This hardware component is known as the brain of the computer because it processes instructions
What is the Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
Computers use binary to represent information. Name the only two digits used in binary.
What are 0 and 1?
This is a worldwide network that connects billions of computers and devices so they can communicate and share information.
What is the Internet?
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many sheep does the farmer have left?
What is 9 sheep?
This is a collection of websites and web pages that people can access using the Internet.
What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?
This type of memory temporarily stores information while the computer is running and loses its data when the power is turned off
What is Random Access Memory (RAM)?
Convert the binary number 1011 into a decimal number.
What is 11?
The device that connects your home or school network to other networks and directs data to the correct destination.
What is a router?
You are running a race. You pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
What is second place?
Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox are all examples of this type of software?
What is a web browser?
A keyboard, mouse and microphone are all examples of this type of hardware
What are Input Devices?
Convert the decimal number 19 into a binary number.
What is 10011?
This type of computer stores websites, videos and other information then sends it to devices when requested?
What is a server?
There are 10 fish in a fish tank. Two drown, three swim away and four die. How many fish are left in the tank?
What are 10 fish? None of them got removed from the tank.
The Internet and the World Wide Web are NOT the same thing. Explain one major difference.
The Internet is the worldwide network connecting devices (Hardware). The World Wide Web is a system of websites and web pages accessed through the Internet (Software).
Unlike RAM, this hardware keeps your files, pictures, and applications saved even when the computer is turned off
What is the Storage or Hard Drive?
Solve this binary addition problem and give the answer in binary: 1011 + 1101.
What is 11000? (11+13 = 24)
When you send information across the Internet, it is broken into smaller pieces that can travel along different routes before being put back together. (What is it called)
What are data packets?
A plane crashes exactly on the border between the United States and Canada. Where should they bury the survivors?
A student types www.wikipedia.org into Google Chrome. Identify what the website represents and explain what the browser does next.
The website is a URL. The browser uses the address to request information from a web server and then the information will be displayed as a web page.
A student is playing a video game. The computer needs to process instructions, temporarily hold game data, and display images on the screen. Name the three hardware components responsible for these tasks.
What is the CPU, RAM and OUTPUT DEVICE?
Computers use binary code to represent different types of information.
Name THREE types of information computers can represent using binary code. Explain how binary is used for each type.
Photos: Pictures are made of tiny parts, called pixels and binary represents the color of each pixel.
Sound: Computers turn sound waves into digital measurements that are stored as binary numbers and used to reproduce sound.
Text: Each letter, number or symbol is assigned to a numerical code that can be represented in binary.
A student in New York sends an email to a friend in France. Name three technologies or components that help the email travel across the Internet.
What are SERVERS, ROUTERS, DATA PACKETS, IP ADDRESSES, FIBER-OPTIC CABLES?
A woman has 7 daughters, each daughter has one brother. How many children does the woman have?
What are 8 children?
Someone says "If the World Wide Web stops working, the entire Internet would crash". Is this student correct, explain why.
No! The Web is only one service that uses the Internet!