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1. Environmentally, which is the most difficult to dispose of?
hard drives
monitors
power supplies
motherboards

2. What should you use to clean the plastic cover on your monitor or PC? Choose all that apply.
alcohol
lint free cloth
WD-40
mild soap solution

3. Your monitor has a cable or cord that connects the monitor to a/an _________ that is installed in an expansion slot on the computer's motherboard.
CPU
video adapter
VGA connector
RJ-45 connector

4. The CRT is the picture tube of your monitor. CRT is an acronym for ____________.
Cathode Ray Tube
Cathode Radio Transmitter
Video Picture Tube
Calcidium Ray Transceiver

5. The individual dots that make up the actual picture on your computer's monitor are known as picture elements or pixels.
True
False

6. The number of pixels across the top of your screen times the number of pixels down the side will give you the total number of pixels used to draw the image. This is known as the monitor's ___________.
dot pitch
resolution
refresh rate
aperature

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