💻COMPUTERS & INTERNET
This global network connects millions of computers together so people can visit websites and send emails.
What is Internet?
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, this device let people talk to each other from far away for the very first time.
What is the Telephone?
This is a machine built by humans that can automatically carry out a complex series of tasks or movements.
What is a Robot?
This massive reusable vehicle is designed to blast off from Earth to deliver astronauts and supplies into outer space.
What is a Rocket?
This is a secret combination of letters, numbers, and symbols used to keep your private online accounts safe from strangers.
What is a password?
This is the physical equipment of a computer that you can actually touch, like the keyboard, mouse, or screen.
What is hardware?
Thomas Edison famously improved this invention so people could safely light up their homes without using candles or oil lamps.
What is the incandescent lightbulb?
These are the step-by-step instructions or rules that an AI or computer follows to solve a specific problem.
What is an Algorithm?
These machines are launched into space and orbit the Earth to send TV signals, weather data, and phone calls around the world.
What is a Satellite?
This is a sneaky computer program designed to break into a device, steal data, or cause the system to crash.
What is a Computer Virus? (or Malware)
This is the "brain" of the computer that handles all the instructions and calculations.
What is a CPU? (or Central Processing Unit)
This technology uses short-range radio waves to connect devices like headphones or controllers to a phone or console without any wires.
What is Bluetooth?
This two-letter term describes computer systems designed to think, learn, and solve problems like a human.
What is AI (or Artificial Intelligence)
This device allows you to print actual physical 3D objects, like toys or tools, out of plastic layer by layer.
What is a 3D Printer?
This fake email or message tricks you into clicking a link so a scammer can steal your personal information or passwords.
What is a Phishing Scam?
This is the name for the hidden instructions or language written by humans that tells a computer exactly what to do.
What is Code (or Computer Programming)
This 3-letter acronym stands for the satellite system that your phone uses to show you an exact map of where you are.
What is a GPS? (or Global Positioning System)
This specific type of autonomous vehicle uses sensors, cameras, and AI to navigate roads without a human driver.
What is a Self-Driving Car (or Autonomous Vehicle)
This technology uses special headsets to completely block out the real world and put the user inside a 3D digital environment.
What is a Virtual Reality? (or VR)
This digital security barrier acts like a wall to block safety threats and unauthorized users from entering a computer network.
What is a Firewall?
This type of computer memory temporary holds data while you are using it, but clears out completely when the power turns off.
What is a Ram? (or Random Access Memory)
This revolutionary type of glass screen allows you to type and swipe on a smartphone without needing any physical buttons.
What is a Touch Screen?
This type of AI technology allows a computer to look at a photo and instantly know if it is looking at a dog, a cat, or a specific person's face.
What is Computer Vision? (or Facial Recognition)
This giant football-field-sized laboratory orbits the Earth and allows scientists from different countries to live and work in space.
What is the International Space Station? (or ISS)
This is the permanent trail of data, photos, and comments that you leave behind every single time you use the internet.
What is a Digital Footprint?