Hardware
The physical aspects of a computer that you can touch.
What is hardware?
The information that a computer inputs, processes, and stores, in the form of binary digits (0 and 1).
What is data?
0 or 1 (true/false, pixel on or off)
What is 1 bit?
Convert the binary to decimal: 00100000
What is 32?
This magical household figure moves from room to room, helping Santa by making sure children are being good.
What is the Elf on the Shelf?
Computers that are portable and designed to be taken wherever a person chooses.
What are laptop computers?
A group of eight bits equals ______.
What is a byte?
A character or part of a number.
What is a byte?
Convert the decimal to binary: 2
What is 00000010?
The other reindeer would not let Rudolph join in any of these activities.
What are reindeer games?
They consist of several parts, usually a CPU box (known as a system unit), a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor, and speakers.
What are desktop computers?
The data that is entered into a computer
What is input?
A small, compressed color image file or a medest-sized black-and-white image file, or a portion of a song file.
What is 1 MB?
Convert the binary to decimal: 00101000
What is 40?
When the Grinch discovers the true meaning of Christmas, his heart grows this number of sizes.
What is 3?
Name 5 pieces of hardware.
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A computer completing a task or tasks when following instructions in a software program.
What is processing?
Several CDs worth of high-quality audio or a compressed movie.
What is 1 GB?
Convert the decimal to binary: 75
What is 01001011?
This dark fairy tale about a brother, a sister, and a witch they meet in the woods, was the inspiration for gingerbread houses.
What is Hansel & Gretel?
This piece of hardware is the brain of the computer.
What is the CPU?
The data produced by a computer after processing.
What is output?
A library of hundreds of movies.
What is a TB?
Convert the binary to decimal: 11111110
What is 254?
These three words are what best describe the Grinch, “and I quote.”
What is "stink, stank, stunk?"