Unit 1: All About the Computer

Edit Answers
123456789101112131415161718192021
Across
  1. 5. An electrical device used to make sound or music louder
  2. 7. The enclosure for all other main interior components of a computer
  3. 9. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 (220) bytes
  4. 11. A software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer
  5. 14. Central Processing Unit; The brains of the computer where most calculations take place
  6. 15. This can be divided into two general classes: systems software and applications software; also called end-user program, it includes such things as database programs, word processors, Web browsers and spreadsheets
  7. 16. Read-only memory; Permanent information stored on a computer
  8. 17. A measure of computer data storage capacity that is roughly equivalent to 1 billion bytes
  9. 18. A document/file container that provides limited disk space for campus faculty, staff, and students
  10. 19. An external hardware device responsible for taking computer data and generating a hard copy of that data
Down
  1. 1. A display screen used to provide visual output form a computer, cable box, video camera, VCR or other video generating device
  2. 2. Short for modulator-demodulator, a device program that enables a computer to transmit data over
  3. 3. A hand-held device that is moved about on a flat surface to direct the cursor on a computer for activating computer functions
  4. 4. The building block for all information that flows through a computer.
  5. 6. A popular type of network cable used for high-speed connections between two devices such as computers and routers on IP networks
  6. 8. A type of computer program that is designed to run a computer’s hardware and application programs
  7. 10. information a computer delivers back to a user
  8. 12. A collection of data, such as, text, graphics, or other types of media such as audio or video clips stored in a place that saves its and organizes it
  9. 13. A hardware device consisting of a number of mechanical buttons which the user presses to input characters to a computer
  10. 20. Information a user enters into a computer
  11. 21. Random-access memory; Temporary information a computer uses only when working on a particular file