Social Studies: The Computer Lesson

____________________designed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine.

• a. Tim Berners-Lee

• a. Charles Babbage

• a. George Carver

1- ____________notes about the Analytical

Engine include what many believe to be the very first computer program.

• a. Ada Lovelace’s

• a. George Carver’s

• a. Sam Smith’s

1- ___________ described computer software and

what we know today as apps.

• a. George Carver

• a. Ada Lovelace

• a. Sam Smith

1- ___________is credited with

building the first modern computer, named the Harvard Mark I.

• a. Alan Turing

• b. Howard Aiken

• c. Sam Smith

1- The transistor was smaller, cheaper, and more reliable than the __________________.

• vacuum tube

• computer

• Analytica Engine

1- Scientists have made transistors even smaller with_________, a substance found in sand.

• copper

• iron

• silicon

1- In modern computers, one tiny microchip can hold _________of transistors made with silicon.

• a. thousands

• b. billions

• c. hundreds

1- ___________have made computing devices much smaller and faster.

• a. microchips

• b. mouses

• c. keyboards

1- computers affect our lives. They are used in schools,

homes, factories, and hospitals.

• false

• true

1- The Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine are the ancestors of the rockets.

• true

• False