Web Tekpardy

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Input and Output

100

The T-V like part of the computer that you look at to see information.
What is the monitor?

200

This input device moves the pointer around on the screen.
What is the mouse?

300

A device that takes a picture of something and turns it into a computerized image.
What is a scanner or a digital camera?

400

One of the following items is not an input device: scanner, printer, keyboard, mouse.
What is a printer?

500

One of the following items is not an output device: modem, printer, scanner, monitor.
What is a scanner?

Bits and Bytes

100

The smallest unit of information a computer uses.
What is a bit?

200

A unit of measure equal to approximately 1000 bytes.
What is a kilobyte?

300

This unit of measure tells you how big a file, a hard drive, or your memory capacity is by counting millions of bytes.
What is a megabyte?

400

This unit of measure is about one billion bytes.
What is a gigabyte?

500

The safest place to save a large sound and graphics multimedia presentation.
What is the hard drive?

Operations

100

This action move an icon around on the screen.
What is clicking and dragging?

200

Sally has created a document at home and she does not have a printer. To take her file to another computer to print requires this device.
What is a floppy disk or a Zip disk?

300

This kind of memory remains on the computer even when the computer is turned off.
What is Read Only Memory (ROM)?

400

One of the following items is not needed to hook up your computer to the World Wide Web: modem, telephone line, printer, web browser.
What is a printer?

500

You will need a lot of this kind of memory to create a multimedia presentation with sound and images.
What is RAM?

Applications

100

A blinking line or shape on the screen that tells you where the next character will go.
What is a cursor?

200

You can do this with a mouse to open up a software program.
What is double clicking?

300

You would use this kind of software to type a report for social studies.
What is word processing?

400

You want to keep track of the temperature each day for one month and then find the average temperature. You should use this kind of software.
What is a spreadsheet?

500

The box where a column and a row intersect in a spreadsheet.
What is a cell?

Internet

100

You want to send a message to an electronic pen pal. You should use this kind of application.
What is e-mail?

200

A tool to help you find specific addresses (URLs) on the World Wide Web.
What is a search engine?

300

You want to get some updated software off the Internet and store it on your hard drive. This is called_________.
What is downloading?

400

The language of the Web.
What is HTML? (hyper text mark up language)

500

The address of a Web site.
What is a URL? (Uniform Resource Locator)

Double Tekpardy

The part of the Internet that provides the user with a graphical way to browse information by pointing and clicking.
What is the World Wide Web?

Created by Marlys and Jon Rustad, October '99