Anatomy of a computer
Across
- 2. Is short for the Universal Serial Bus
- 3. Houses your graphics card which supplies the image to the monitor
- 5. Cables that most mice require
- 6. Also known as the communications port
- 9. Houses most of a computers components
- 10. The brain that carries out the computer's instructions
- 12. Ports that connect peripherals such as digital cameras or digital video cameras
Down
- 1. Most of these attach to the motherboard's PCI ports
- 4. The port that old scanners or printers connect to
- 5. Funnels power through the multicolored cables to each device
- 7. Slots that let peripherals communicate quickly with the processor
- 8. When your computer is slow, add more of this to increase performance
- 11. Perform system checks before you start your OS