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Exercise Parts of a Computer

Find a labelled picture of the inside of a computer on the Internet. Paste it in the space below.

Match the term on the left side with the definition on the right side.

___ Power supply a) All chips and expansion cards plug into this

___ Monitor b) A local storage device that holds a lot of information

using plastic discs
___ CPU
c) A local storage device that is removable
___ Motherboard
d) Turns AC power from your electrical cord into DC power
___ CD ROM Drive for the motherboard

___ Hard drive e) This is the brain of the computer, and does all the
calculations. It can get very hot! The higher the GHz, the
___ Web Camera faster your computer will run.

___ RAM f) Holds all the results of the calculations temporarily. The
more of this, the faster your computer will run.
___ USB
g) The primary storage drive that can hold an entire
___ Video Card encyclopedia of information

___ Ethernet Card h) A device that enables users to receive and transmit
signals over telephone lines
___ Modem
i) A card that gives the computer display capabilities

j) A network card that enables a computer to connect to

the Internet

k) A device that feeds or streams its image in real time to

the attached computer

l) A device that is the window into the computer