SS Weekly 2 Quiz Review

Which region of Texas is mostly flat with very few trees and gets 12-33 inches of rain each year?

• Mountains and Basins

• North Central Plains

• Great Plains

• Coastal Plains

Read the following passage. Then read each question and select your answer.

(1) Students who attended small schools in Texas one-hundred years ago would think students in today's schools are rich. (2) Did you know that many of the children did not wear shoes. (3) There families did not have enough money to buy them shoes. (4) Schools back then did not have cafeterias students brought their own lunches.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1?

• make no change

• change one-hundred to one hundred

• change students to student's

• change today's to todayz

Which city is located east of Austin?

• El Paso

• Dallas

• Amarillo

• San Antonio

• Houston

What should be the matching cause?

• The automobile replaced the horse and buggy.

• Many countries use oil.

• Oil is discovered in Texas.

• Florence Childress moves to Spindletop.

Use the article "Products from Texas are Everywhere!" Which product belongs in the blank line?

• lotion

• couch cushions

• leather

• food

In the article "How Texas Oil Changed the Life of a Pioneer Girl," the reader can tell Florence Childress lived the life of a pioneer in Taiban because ____________.

• She worked hard.

• The family lived in a dugout.

• The family raised chickens.

• Her father got a job in Spindletop.

Where was a large amount of oil discovered in 1901?

• MDE

• Midland

• Galveston

• Spindletop

Read the following:

(1) Students who attended small schools in Texas one-hundred years ago would think students in today's schools are rich. (2) Did you know that many of the children did not wear shoes. (3) There families did not have enough money to buy them shoes. (4) Schools back then did not have cafeterias students brought their own lunches.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2?

• change wear to where

• change know to no

• change the period to a question mark

• no change needed