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Computer Hardware

This quiz addresses part of the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2 in Computing. Specifically it looks at the main parts, or hardware, of a computer. It is one of 20 quizzes to help you find out about how computers work, and how they affect all our lives.

What makes a computer work? Which bit is which? This quiz tests you on some of the main parts, or hardware, of a computer. Inside the computer there are lots of tiny electronic components. These work very, very fast to make the computer work. They are like the brain of the computer. What about all the other main parts? Find out a little bit more about input and output by playing this quiz.

1.
Which one of these is used to type words into a computer?
Printer
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet
Are you good at typing?
2.
Which one of these is an input device?
Printer
Scanner
Speaker
Projector
Have you used a scanner? What did you use it for?
3.
Aysha is chatting to her friend on a 'phone. Aysha can hear her friend’s voice. This is because the 'phone gives out ______.
Sweets
Money
Sounds
Heat
'Phones have tiny speakers. These make sounds for us to hear
4.
Sam’s Mum is using her laptop. The laptop stores information on a ____ _____.
Keyboard
Printer
Hard Drive
Mouse
All laptops and big computers have hard-drives. They store lots and lots of information
5.
Lots of 'phones and computers have a ______ to take pictures.
Microphone
Camera
Keyboard
Mouse
Do you like taking pictures? What do you take pictures of?
6.
When you speak into a 'phone, your voice is picked up by a tiny __________.
Loudspeaker
Printer
Keyboard
Microphone
Microphones are input devices
7.
A lot of computers have one of these. It sounds like a small animal.
Cat
Mouse
Mole
Rat
What can you do with a computer mouse?
8.
Both computers and 'phones have these. You look at them.
Walls
Screens
Doors
Blankets
You are looking at a screen now
9.
You put information in to a computer, and you get information out of a computer.

Lucy is using a smart-phone. It has a touch-screen. Lucy touches on an app. What is this?
Input
Output
Putting
Pouting
There are lots of input devices. Both mice and keyboards are input devices
10.
Which one of these is an output device?
Mouse
Keyboard
Camera
Printer
Printers use ink and paper
You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - What is a computer system?

Author:  David Bland

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