Across
- 1. - to move the mouse while its button is being depressed.
- 2. - first thing you see in your computer.
- 3. - The pointer, usually arrow or cross shaped, which is controlled by the mouse.
- 4. - an acronym for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory.
- 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 ).
- 8. Drive - Stores Data (information) a way to move more data from one computer to another it is a portable drive.
- 10. - to start up a computer.
- 11. - the Central Processing Unit. The processing chip that is the "brains" of a computer.
- 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).
- 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.
- 15. - the generic word for an application, document, control panel or other computer data.
Down
- 1. drive - the machinery that writes the data from a disk and/or writes data to a disk.
- 2. - a file you create, as opposed to the application which created it.
- 5. - Electronic device for storing and processing data.
- 6. - Is another word for Information. Data (Information) can be text and/or numbers, examples of data: names, dates, places, addresses, phone numbers.
- 7. - is a collection of data or information.
- 8. - an electronic subdirectory which contains files.
- 9. - a typeface that contains the characters of an alphabet or some other letterforms.
- 12. box - an on-screen message box that appears when the Mac requires additional information before completing a command.