1. By charlotte Westbury and charlotte Kollosche HOW COMPUTERS AND IPADS WORK

2. A motherboard What is a mother board? A motherboard is a part of the computer where everything connects to. Here is an example of a motherboard.

3. A CPU (central processing unit) The CPU is located on the mother board. It is the brains of the computer. The CPU does not store anything, it runs the computer

4. Memory Working System The memory working system is also known as the hardrive. This is also attached to the motherboard. The hardrive stores all of your information and it stores as much as can depending on how many GB ( gigabytes) your device has.

5. An operating system This is called software which means it is not a physical object. An operating system is how you get to other files such as windows, IOS, mountain lion and android.

6. Connectivity Connectivity is where you can either connect to the internet or connect to something without out wires so basically it is wireless.

7. Input and outputs An input is something like a keyboard or a mouse something that is not physical and an output is like a printer or a screen something that is physical.