STEAM Vocabulary

Algorithm is a set of BLANK instructions to complete a task

What does CPU mean?

• Computer Processing Unit

• Center Protection Unit

• Central Processing Unit

• Controlled Processing Unit

What does it mean to debug a program or algorithm?

Give an example of an output device.

Instruction in a computer program is called

• Automated

• Constraints

• Code

• Data

Computers are not able to choose the color of your home. This limit is called a

• code

• algorithm

• constraint

• CPU

The information that a computer stores is called

• automated

• data

• decompose

• conditional

What does the vocabulary word conditional mean?

Ms. Wilkinson noticed that there is a problem in your algorithm. Instead of debugging it, she decided to break it down into smaller pieces. Which vocabulary word best describes this

• decompose

• computer

• input

• criteria

A technology that gets input, stores and processes information, and gives output

• Computer

• Speaker

• Automated

• None of these