Parts of an Email
Vocabulary
Career Research
Email Mechanics
Parts of a Computer
100

Dear [name],

This is what part of a professional email?

The greeting.

Keep it respectful and professional.

100

A step by step set of instructions to complete a task.

Algorithm

100

What is the government agency that tracks and publishes all of the data on jobs in the United States & connected territories?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics or BLS.

BLS.gov is also acceptable (website)

100

In the email address employer@business.com, what part of the email address is the word "employer"?

The name or "mailbox"

100

What is RAM?

Random Access Memory or the working memory of the computer.

200

Why is it important to verify the whole email address of any message sent to you, especially those with links attached?

To make sure they actually are who they say they are.

Teacher@mnps.org is very different than Teacher@Angelfire.com or Teacher@Yahoo.com.

200

The process of finding and fixing glitches or problems in a set of instructions or code.

Debugging

200

What is one of the two job listing websites we discussing in class, and in the PPT, for looking up specific jobs in specific areas?

200

in employer@business.com, what is the "domain" part of the address?

200

The part of the computer that processes images and streaming content.

The GPU

Graphics Processing Unit

300

Sincerely,

[name]


What part of the professional email is this?

The closing.

300

The process of breaking down a task into its simplest parts.

Computer science vocabulary.

Decomposition

300

A job outlook of -5% means what?

The job is shrinking and will have less positions available in the future.

300

CC stands for what?

Carbon Copy, sends a copy of the email to everyone in the cc list and publishes a list of all recipients to everyone receiving the email.

300

The "skeleton" or "spine" of the computer that all of the other parts connect to.

The motherboard

400

The part of the professional email that explains, in complete sentences, what your reason for writing the email is and what, if anything, you want from the recipient.

The body of the email.

400

When you display data with a graph, that is an example of what?

Data Visualization.

400

On BLS.gov, what does OOH stand for?

Occupational Outlook Handbook

400

What is BCC and what does it do?

Blind Carbon Copy.

It sends a copy of the email to everyone in the BCC list but only shows them the address of the originator and themselves. It goes out "blind".

400

The brain of the computer.

The CPU

The Central Processing Unit

500

What is the most important thing to remember about a subject line?

It must be brief but specific, to convey the contents of the email.

500

Displaying data in different sets and comparing it to answer questions is an example of what?

Data Analysis

500

What tab, in the OOH listing for a job, will show you jobs that share skills with the one you are currently looking at?

The "Similar Jobs" tab.

500

employer@business.com

What is the "separator" component that is essential to all email?

@

500

What is snapdragon?

The most popular CPU for smartphones in the 2020s.