Computer Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The words of something written (4)
  2. 4. A set of related records kept together (4)
  3. 7. The mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system (8)
  4. 9. The sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave (7)
  5. 11. A marker placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place (8)
  6. 13. The bill in a restaurant (3)
  7. 14. Study of what happened in the past (7)
  8. 15. Water soaked soil (3)

Down

  1. 1. To wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information (6)
  2. 3. Ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts (5)
  3. 5. An event in which something is displaced without rotation (5)
  4. 6. The text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other ___ publication (5)
  5. 7. Where you live (4)
  6. 8. Systematic investigation to establish facts (8)
  7. 10. Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops (5)
  8. 12. To transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote (6)