Inventors & Inventions

Inventors & Inventions

A Unit 5 Review

Multiple Choice

Which invention was inspired by nature?

• The phonograph

• Hook-and-loop fabric

• Crayons

• The telephone

Multiple Select

Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent or improve?

• The lightbulb

• The telephone

• The television

• The phonograph

Multiple Choice

How do you determine a main idea?

• The main idea is the beginning of a text.

• Think about what the text is mostly about, and what the most important details are.

• Wait for someone else to tell the answer.

• Read the first line of each paragraph in the text.

Fill in the Blanks

Mary Anderson invented

in 1903.

Multiple Choice

The impact of an invention is:

• how people use it.

• how the inventor thinks of the idea.

• how the invention works.

• how the invention affects people either long ago or today.

Multiple Choice

The impact of an invention is:

• how people use it.

• how the inventor thinks of the idea.

• how the invention works.

• how the invention affects people either long ago or today.