Across
- 2. Provides temporary storage for the operating system
- 5. Embedded in the motherboard to perform critical booting operations
- 6. A unit of frequency equal to one billion cycles per second
- 7. The wiring inside of computers
- 8. A piece of metal that draws heat from the CPU
- 10. unique numerical values to letters, numbers, and symbols to represent text in computers and electronic communications
- 11. The "brain" of a computer, responsible for executing instructions from software and processing data
- 12. A metal disk that retains stored data even when power isn't being supplied.
- 13. a small, fast-access memory used to store frequently accessed data to improve computer performance
Down
- 1. An ____ drive stores data by using tiny pits and lands on its surface
- 3. Green circuit board that connects everything
- 4. A data storage device that uses integrated circuits and flash memory to store data persistently, related to HDD
- 6. A printed circuit board that controls the output to a display screen.
- 9. A circuit within a computer's CPU that performs all arithmetic and logical operations on binary numbers
- 13. Sends electricity throughout the computer billions of times per second