1.  Small Ceramic or metal component with fins on its surface that absorbs and ventilates heat produced by electrical projects.  The pace of a system clock is called the clock speed, it is measured by the number of ticks per second.

2.  Tells the computer what actions to do and not do. The speed by which these tasks are accomplished depends on the computer processor’s speed.

3.  Small ceramic or metal components with fins on its surface that absorbs and ventilates heat produced by electrical components.  Some are part of the processor chip, some are on the top are side of the chip.

4.  Small cooling device used to cool processors in notebook computers.  Smaller than the heat sinks.

5.  A continuous flow of fluid such as water and glycol.  Process that transfers the heated fluid away from the processor to cool the liquid and then returns the cooled fluid to the processor.

6.  Processing method that uses multiple processors simultaneously to execute a single program or task.  Some use dual core processors or multiple core processors

7.  Component of the system unit that converts wall outlet AC power to the DC power that is used by a computer.  If the power supply is not providing the necessary power, the computer will not function properly

8.  Opening inside the system unit in which additional equipment can be installed.  A bay is different from a slot.  Rectangular openings called drive bays typically hold disk drives.

9.  PIC bus- Peripheral Component Interconnect Bus: is a high speed expansion bus that connects higher speed devices  AGP- Accelerated Graphics Port: is a buss designed by Intel to provide the speed with which 3D graphics and video transmit.  USB- Universal Serial Bus and FireWire bus are buses that eliminate the need to install cards in expansion slots.

10.  Electronic channel that transfers electronic bits internally within the circuitry of a computer, allowing the devices both inside and attached to the system unit to communicate with each other.