Computer Applications
COMPUTER VOCABULARY SCAVENGER HUNT
Answer each question in the space provided by using the internet and indicate the
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1. What are computer chips made out of?
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2. What does RAM stand for? What is it?
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3. What does ROM stand for? What is it?
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4. What is a CPU? What does it do?
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5. Name four different pieces of computer hardware and tell what they do.
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6. Name three different types of computer software.
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7. What is an input device?
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8. Name four input devices.
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9. What is an output device?
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10. Name four places that computer output can go.
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11. How does a computer calculate numbers? How would it multiply?
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12. Name the three functions that computers do over and over.
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13. Explain what each of the three functions do.
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14. What is beta software?
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15. What is a computer bug?
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16. What is binary information?
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17. What is a bit?
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18. What is a byte equal to?
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19. Roughly how many bytes are in a kilobyte?
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20. Roughly how many bytes are in a megabyte?
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21. Roughly how many bytes are in a gigabyte?
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