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Software Fundamentals
Graphics
Data
Intellectual Property
BONUS
100
Device for sending information from the computer (i.e. monitor, printer)
What is an Output Device?
100
The smallest most basic component of an image or picture on a computer screen
What is a pixel?
100
A fundamental unit of information with just having 2 values, as either of the binary digits of 0 or 1.
What is a bit?
100
A type of law that traditionally protects forms of literary expression.
What is copyright?
100
Memory that stores program instructions and data temporarily.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
200
Device for accepting input. (i.e. a keyboard)
What is an Input Device?
200
The degree of sharpness of a computer generated image as measured by the number of dots per linear inch. The more dots per inch the higher it is.
What is Resolution?
200
1000 million bytes or1024 megabytes
What is a gigabyte? (GB)
200
Under modern law, most original works of art, literature, music, etc. are covered by copyright from the time of their creation for a limited period of time (which varies by country). When the copyright expires, these materials are "public property", and available for anyone to use freely for any purpose.
What is Public Domain?
200
A term that describes the divide between the people who do and who do not have access to the internet.
What is the digital divide?
300
The main processing chip of a computer
What is a Central Processing Unit? (CPU)
300
To transform an image by computer animation
What is morphing?
300
Converting information into a digital form that can be stored in the computers memory.
What is digitize?
300
The unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works.
What is Copyright Infringement?
300
The acquisition, processing, storage, manipulation and dissemination of information by computing or telecommunications or a combination of both.
What is Information Technology?
400
Any hardware device that attaches to a computer.
What is a peripheral?
400
Graphics in which images are stored and manipulated as organized collection of pixels rather than shapes and lines.
What is bitmapped?
400
Makes files smaller using special encoding schemes to save storage space on disks and to save transmission time when files are transferred through networks.
What is compression?
400
Copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and "transformative" purpose such as to comment upon, criticize or parody a copyrighted work, or in education.
What is Fair Use?
400
A computer that provides other computers connected to the network with access to data, programs, and other resources.
What is a Server?
500
Groups of wires on a circuit board. Information travels between components through them.
What is a bus?
500
The number of bits devoted to each pixel that can limit the ability of the artist to create realistic on-screen images with a bitmapped graphics program.
What is color-depth or bit depth?
500
American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a code that represents characters as 8-bit codes and allows the binary computer to work with letters, digits, and special characters.
What is ASCII?
500
a work based upon one or more pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.
What is Derivative Work?
500
The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years
What is Moore's Law?