Terms	Definition	Ranking	Examples
Applications Software	Programs that are written to do the tasks that humans want to do such as writing a letter of drawing a picture. Sometimes called a program.	9	Tool software Utility software Educational software
Computer System	Composed of hardware and software	8	Hard drives and disks
Disk Drives	Store information magnetically and require some type of media such as tapes, disks, or CDs.	7	Internal drive External drive Hard drive Floppy disk CD-ROM
CPU	Central processing unit	1	What makes a computer work.
E-mail	Electronic mail	15	Ktureaud@hotmail.com
Home Page	The first page of a web site.	6	Where you find out what the Web site is all about.
HTML	Hyper text markup language, special program used to communicate on the World Wide Web.	10	Computers use this to communicate in different languages.
Input Devices	What you use to get your information into the computer.	2	Keyboard Mouse Scanner
Internet	Network of networks made up of thousands of education, government, business and community networks sharing information.	11	Links and other helpful information
Modem	A communications device that lets you communicate with other computers.	5	Phone line
Operating System	Acts as a visible interface between the user and the computer.	3	MS-DOS Windows Macintosh OS2 Warp
Output Devices	What you use to get information from the computer.	4	Monitor Pixels Printer
URL	Universal resource locator	12	www.hotmail.com
Web Site	Special kind of publication of information on the Web.	13	A kind of drawer that holds all of the files.
World Wide Web	Hypertext information retrieval system that navigates databases on the internet.	14	Links Lesson Plans