
When Everything Changed: the Industrial Revolution
Authored by Ian Foran
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8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of the following IS NOT a method that humans used to provide energy for production BEFORE the Industrial Revolution?
Humans provided their own energy by eating plants and animals.
Humans used domestic livestock.
Humans used windmills and waterwheels.
Humans burned fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which sentence gives a reason why the world changed so radically in the 18th century?
At one time, humans used their own energy.
Humans discovered fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.
Fossil fuels form deep underground.
Eventually, some turn into coal, a dark rock that can be burned.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
The steam engine was first developed to power locomotives and steam ships.
The Industrial Revolution led to an uprising of sentient machines.
The Industrial Revolution caused cities to grow as more people moved there to work in factories.
When the British first began to burn coal for fuel, they knew it would lead to the Industrial Revolution.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
How does a steam engine provide energy?
Burning coal boils water producing steam which builds up pressure to drive a piston.
Burning coal boils water, turning a waterwheel.
Because of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Mr. Foran, you dummy. Steam engines do not provide energy.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Who invented the steam engine?
Thomas Savery
James Watt
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Overall, the article was organized around which of the following?
A man and his invention that sparked the Industrial Revolution.
The reasons why Britain became the world's superpower by 1914.
How and why the Industrial Revolution happened and some results of it.
The negative consequences of the Industrial Revolution on people and the environment.
7.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The main advancements in the early Industrial Revolution occurred in which industries? Select all that apply.
Computers
Military Technology
Textiles
Mass Transportation
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