Nature of Technology U1Test

Match the following:

• Sound Card

• Processes all the information on a computational level.It takes all the processes from the RAM and processes it to perform the tasks required by the computer system.

• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• The main circuit board that is screwed directly inside the computer case. All other cards and everything else plugs directly into the motherboard

• Motherboard

• An output device that processes the data from the motherboard and sends the appropriate information to the computer's screen for display

• Graphics Card

• Connects through a slot to enhance or improve the audio quality from audio on your computer system

• CPU Fan

• It's a fan inside or connected to the computer to keep the CPU cool.

A peripheral device is

• the share or exchange or information, ideas or news

• another name for the apps that are installed on a computer and used to print jobs

• Something using scientific knowledge in real life, especially to better meet people's wants and needs and improve the quality of life.

• Something (like printers, a mouse, speakers, a keyboard or monitor) that is attached to the computer and aids in input and/or output.

Match the following

• Communicate

• the share or exchange or information, ideas or news

• influence

• using scientific knowledge in real life, especially to better meet people's wants and needs and improve the quality of life

• Technology

• Having knowledge, skill and understanding about something specific

• Literate

• having an effect or impact on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of another or others

• device

• Tool or piece of equipment that does something specific

Explain the difference between RAM and ROM. Use YOUR OWN words, complete sentences and fully describe the differences.

Match the following:

• Digital Tools

• Provides access to Internet information through documents including text, graphics, audio, and video files that use a special formatting language called HTML

• Programming

• electronic technology that generates, stores, processes, and transmits data in the form of strings of 0s and 1s

• Industry

• all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service

• World Wide Web

• Hardware or software that helps in gathering data, organizing information, and creating products.

• Digital

• The process of writing instructions for a digital tool (like a computer)

Match the following:

• RAM (Random Access Memory)

• allows your computer to perform many of its everyday tasks, such as loading applications, browsing the internet, editing a spreadsheet, or experiencing the latest game. Memory also allows you to switch quickly among these tasks, remembering where you are in one task when you switch to another task.

• HDD (Hard Disk Drive)

• a way to solve a problem or deal with a difficult situation

• Solution

• A non-moving storage device that uses the same kind of memory that flash drives uses, but works much faster.

• SSD (Solid State Drive)

• a type of computer storage containing non-volatile, permanent data that, normally, can only be read, not written to. ROM contains the programming that allows a computer to start up each time it is turned on.

• ROM (Read Only Memory)

• A direct access storage device used to store and retrieve data. It can also be used as a boot drive to run the operating system.

Think of a product or something that you use that is now DIGITAL. Explain how it used to work first.

Example: A clock. They were analog at first and people had to use the hands to tell time. Now they are digital and display the numbers in LED lights so you don't have to count anymore.