Vocab Review - Weeks 1-7 | 2025

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Across
  1. 4. The central ‘processing’ unit of a computer.
  2. 5. Another word for tiny bits of data that flow through the Internet till they get to their destination.
  3. 7. You save a document on Google Drive, you save it to here. (It’s not really ‘fluffy.’)
  4. 8. It means ‘to be concealed’ and is a feature on a web browser to avoid being tracked.
  5. 10. To create a ‘grid’ in a Google document, you click on ‘INSERT’ and select this option.
  6. 11. The college dropout took a class which gave him the idea of a computer company. What unusual class was this?
  7. 15. The internal storage device in a computer.
  8. 17. Thomas Edison’s ‘Voice Tube’ was called this.
  9. 19. What the Internet was called when it was part of the Defense Department Advanced Research project.
  10. 20. What the station master taught Thomas Edison after he saved his son’s life.
  11. 22. In addition to the mouse, Doug Engelbart demonstrated this new way to link documents.
  12. 24. Data about a person that might include a retina scan or facial geometry. Definitely PII!
  13. 26. First name of the inventor of the World Wide Web
Down
  1. 1. Any external device that provides input and output for the computer.
  2. 2. A first working model of an invention meant to demonstrate. It’s not perfect.
  3. 3. Last name of the cofounder of Apple computers.
  4. 6. When there is a two-way flow of information between devices, you call this experience this. (See Engelbart handout.)
  5. 7. The keyboard command for searching a word on a website, or any document.
  6. 9. The tiny rectangle of hardware that ‘knows’ which circuits to use, and does math calculations.
  7. 11. A person who operated a mainframe. She was called this!
  8. 12. A competitor to AMD that manufactures microprocessors.
  9. 13. One of Steve Jobs’ investments had more to do with movies than hardware.
  10. 14. The part of the Web often not accessible to us because they are password protected.
  11. 16. The main circuit board inside a computer on which is the CPU, Hard Drive, and RAM.
  12. 18. What the earliest computer was called before we called it a computer. It filled a room!
  13. 21. The second word of RAM
  14. 23. Information that could specifically identify you: Three letters.
  15. 25. What kind of software would be Linux or Windows? Not Application software, it’s_________ software.