Computer Vocabulary 7th And 8th Grade
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  1. What is the name of a hand held device that helps the user move across the flat surface and help control the pointer on the screen.*


  1. What is the name of the device that helps in typing in the words and numbers along with the symbols and thus communicate with computer. In other words, it is the way, how you can feed in information that needs to processed into your computer.*


  1. What is the name of the temporary storage space in the computer that helps place information so that is can execute the program and instructions given. *


  1. What is the name of a computer program used for accessing sites or information on a network (such as the World Wide Web)?*


  1. What is the name of the input devices that are connected to the machines (such as the keyboard, mouse and printer)?*


  1. What is the name of is a physical or logical construction that connects different computers together and helps them communicate?


  1. What is the name of an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations?*


  1. What is the name of an executable software that runs on a computer? It contains compiled codes that run directly from the computer's operating system.*


  1. What is the name of the software that communicates with the computer hardware on the primary level. No software can be run on the computer without this. It serves as a user interface and helps allocating memory, processes tasks, accesses disks and peripheral.*


  1. What is the name of an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations?*


  1. What is the name for a series of step by step instructions that helps the computer perform a specific action?*


  1. What is the name of the device that helps execute instructions in a software program and helps retrieve instructions form the computer's memory, comprehending and executing instructions and helping direct the input and output of the computer?*


  1. What is the name of a unit for information storage that includes word-processor, spreadsheet, pictures, music, etc?*


  1. What is the name of the region where the information is stored and helps the computer to permanently retain and store the data.*


  1. What is the name of the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system? (examples are monitor, hard drive, CPU, Keyboard, and motherboard)*


  1. What is the name of a program that helps one move from one web page to another. The text is underlined and the cursor that moves over this text document, takes the shape of a hand.*


  1. What is the name of a world wide network that helps connect millions of users around the world to share and exchange data, information, opinions, etc. *


  1. What is the name of the computer screen or display unit.*


  1. What is the name of an input device used to type text and numbers into a particular computer program and give commands to the operating system. *


  1. What is the name of a hardware component of the computer which is used to produce a hard copy of the data which is stored in a digital format on the computer storage?*


  1. What is the name of the computer hardware which is used to convert the power from the mains to a voltage that is necessary to run the computer? It also regulates the flow of power to the other various parts of computer.*


  1. What is the name of a device that is used to transfer information through the Internet*


  1. What is the name of a storage device in the computer, which facilitates the storage of digitally encoded data?*


  1. Which of these are input devices?
    Keyboard
    Printer
    Monitor
    Scanner
    Mouse


  1. Which of these are output devices?
    Printer
    Keyboard
    Speaker
    Projector
    Monitor


  1. What is the 3 letter abreviation for the address that defines the route to a file on a Web server?*


  1. Which is bigger a Gigabyte or a Megabyte?*
    Gigabyte
    Megabyte


  1. What is the 4 letter abbreviation for the document format used on the Internet?
    RUL
    HTML
    URL
    WWW


  1. What does the abbreviation HTML stand for?
    Hyper Text Markup Language
    Here To Make Laugh
    Hosted Telegraphic Management Language


  1. What does URL stand for?*


  1. What does URL stand for?
    Unified Random Language
    Unity Real Launch
    Uniform Resource Locator


  1. What is the name of the central printed circuit board, located in the central processing unit of the computer.*
    fatherboard
    motherboard
    central board


  1. What is the name of is the electronic circuit which facilitates data processing by executing various computer programs. Data processing by this device involves four steps - fetching the instruction from the program memory, decoding the instruction, executing the desired operation and displaying the results.*
    central processing unit (CPU)
    computer
    main unit


  1. What is the name of the instructions that are provided to the computer with step-by-step actions that help executing a specific task ?
    hardware
    software
    application





Mrs. Sobczyk
OLPH Catholic School