Vocab 4.1

Front 1

System Unit

Back 1

Case that contains the electronic components of the computer used to process data

Front 2

Mother board

Back 2

System board
Main circuit board of system unit in which many electronic components are attached to it

Front 3

Chip

Back 3

small piece of semiconducting material usually silicon on which integrated circuits are etched

Front 4

CPU

Back 4

Central processing unit
Interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operates a computer

Front 5

Multi-Core Processor

Back 5

Chip with two or more separate processor cores common ones are dual core and quad core

Front 6

Control Unit

Back 6

Components of processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer.

Front 7

ALU

Back 7

Arithmetic Logic Unit
Component of the processor performs arithmetic comparisons and other operations include calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Front 8

System Clock

Back 8

Small quartz crystal circuit, controls the timing of all computer operations. Generates regular ticks that set operations pace of components of the system unit

Front 9

Clock Speed

Back 9

Pace of system clock, measured by number of ticks per second

Front 10

Gigahertz

Back 10

GH
One billion clock ticks per second