Technology Vocabulary Set 2

What is known as a microprocessor chip commonly referred to as the computer's brain?

• Hardware

• CPU

• Modem

• Icon

What is a drive located inside the computer used to store data and programs?

• Hardware
• Icon
• Output
• Hard Drive

Instructions for telling the computer what to do and how to do it which are inside the computer, on a disk, or a website.

• Hardware

• Software

• Icon

• CPU

A software program that lets you explore the World Wide Web?

• Output

• Processing

• Hard Drive

• Browser

Hardware inside a computer that temporarily stores data, serving as the computer's "working" memory.

• Random Access Memory

• Output

• Icon

• Processing

What is the process of entering information into a computer. (Keyboard, Scanner, Mouse, USB drive, internet downloads.)

• Icon
• Output
• Input
• Processing

Hardware inside a computer that temporarily stores data, serving as the computer's "working" memory.

• Hardware

• Icon

• Ouput

• Random Access Memory

What is the information that comes out of a computer (Monitor, Printer, Speaker)

• Ouput
• Input
• Processing
• Modem

What is a picture representing a file or program.

• Output
• Icon
• CD Drive
• Hard Drive

What are the parts of the computer which you can actually see and touch?

• Hard Drive
• Input 
• Hardware
• Output