Information Transfer Vocab

Front

Signal sent through air for info exchange.

Back

radio waves

Front

Giving a computer instructions in a language it understands.

Back

coding

Front

Repeating events.

Back

pattern

Front

To send from one place to another.

Back

transmit

Front

Dots that create an image on a monitor

Back

pixels

Front

Device using electrical signals for long-distance messaging

Back

telegraph

Front

System of dots and dashes representing the alphabet

Back

morse code

Front

Groupings of 1's and 0's that represent information for computers.

Back

binary code

Front

Visual sign using flags, arms, or lights to represent numbers/letters

Back

semaphore

Front

Brains of electronic devices, about the size of a coin, deep inside phones and computers. They send and receive patterns for electronics to function.

Back

microchip