Grade 8 - Revision Topic 4 - The Industrial Revolution

Grade 8 - Revision Topic 4 -

The Industrial Revolution

Look closely at the changes. There will be questions on the next few slides

Multiple Choice

How did the landscape look in the 1750's?

• Busy towns and traffic

• Quiet but busy city

• Rural landscape with people working the land

• Factory town

Multiple Choice

How did the landscape look in the 1830's?

• Busy towns and traffic

• Quiet but busy city

• Rural landscape with people working the land

• More buildings being built in towns, moving away from an only rural society

Make sure you know these words

Multiple Choice

Read the following passage and pick the answer that has the correct order of the missing words:

Britain was an ____ society where ___ would grow vegetables such as _____ by ____ seeds into the land. They would ____ the land by letting some paddocks lie ____.

• turnip, agrarian, fallow, nourish, sowing, peasants

• agrarian, peasants, turnips, sowing, nourish, fallow

• peasants, turnips, sowing, nourish, fallow, agrarian

Read this before answering the questions that follow

Multiple Choice

As towns grew and more buildings popped up in what was once a rural society, transportation grew as well. What was the name of the type of transportation invented that helped grow towns?

• Cargo ship

• Airplane

• Steam Engine

• Motor car

Multiple Select

Click all the things that the steam engine could be used for.

• Transporting products and goods

• Powering machines

• Mining

• Moving people around the country

Multiple Choice

There was also another machine that really helped industry to grow. What was the name of this machine?

• Spinning frame

• Weaving frame

• Spinning frame

• Weaving frame

Multiple Choice

Another name given to the spinning frame is the what?

• Spinning Granny

• Weaving Joe

• Spinning Jenny

• Weaving Granny

Multiple Choice

The spinning frame was also known as the water wheel because it was spun by cotton.

True or False?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

One way to get workers to work in your factories, to earn you a lot of money, is to do what?

• Offering mall vouchers for the hardest workers

• Build accommodation for the whole family to live in near work

• Provide a really nice working area and not employ any children

Watch the video on the next slide

Answer the questions that follow

Multiple Choice

When Richard Arkwright updated the spinning Jenny, he invented a way in which it could be powered by what?

• Air

• Steam

• Water

• Petrol

Multiple Choice

The water frame was the first machine in history that could produce high quality yarn that was spun evenly and quickly.

True or False?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the spinning frame that was a hybrid of the spinning Jenny and the water frame?

• Spinning Horse

• Spinning Donkey

• Spinning Mule

Multiple Select

This new spinning machine could do what?

Tick all that apply.

• Produce more yarn

• Produce better quality yarn

• Spin yarn faster

• Sew the yarn into a sweater

Multiple Choice

The Industrial Revolution was a time period where the rural, agricultural society was almost a thing of the past. The steam engine helped transport people and products to other places and power machines. Families left the land and worked in new factories. True or False?

• False

• True

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1. FIRST watch the video

2. SECOND, do the quiz