Computer Terms # 1

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Across
  1. 1. - to move the mouse while its button is being depressed.
  2. 2. - first thing you see in your computer.
  3. 3. - The pointer, usually arrow or cross shaped, which is controlled by the mouse.
  4. 4. - an acronym for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory.
  5. 7. - to transfer data from one computer to another. (If you are on the receiving end, you are downloading. If you are on the sending end, you are uploading ).
  6. 8. Drive - Stores Data (information) a way to move more data from one computer to another it is a portable drive.
  7. 10. - to start up a computer.
  8. 11. - the Central Processing Unit. The processing chip that is the "brains" of a computer.
  9. 13. - the smallest piece of information used by the computer. Derived from "binary digit". In computer language, either a one (1) or a zero (0).
  10. 14. - When Computers are connected with wires, cables, or satellites that provide wireless connection to share information & data. The Internet is a global word that is uppercase all the time a proper noun.
  11. 15. - the generic word for an application, document, control panel or other computer data.
Down
  1. 1. drive - the machinery that writes the data from a disk and/or writes data to a disk.
  2. 2. - a file you create, as opposed to the application which created it.
  3. 5. - Electronic device for storing and processing data.
  4. 6. - Is another word for Information. Data (Information) can be text and/or numbers, examples of data: names, dates, places, addresses, phone numbers.
  5. 7. - is a collection of data or information.
  6. 8. - an electronic subdirectory which contains files.
  7. 9. - a typeface that contains the characters of an alphabet or some other letterforms.
  8. 12. box - an on-screen message box that appears when the Mac requires additional information before completing a command.