Unit 5 Assessment Part 1 Review

How was this piece of text organized?

• Chronological (in time order)

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Questions and answers

Supporting this plant will make us a part of the national

movement to rely on renewable energy sources. Managing our

forests will provide a local energy source year after year.

What is the meaning of the word movement as

• a change in the location of something

• a law or legal requirement

• the actions of a group of people

• an idea or proposal for something

What point is supported by the graph

• Energy from biomass plants will soon be more important than

  energy from oil or coal plants

• Biomass plants are good for the local economy and can produce

  cheap energy.

• Many towns in the United States are using biomass for energy,

  and more will be using it in the future.

• Towns that don’t invest in biomass plants now will have a hard

  time getting them built in the future.

The first g in managing is pronounced like

• -guh-

• -juh-

The first g in managing is pronounced like the g in—

• energy.

• heating.

• go.

• green

Choose two sentences from the list that describe problems the author talks about.

• “One is that energy costs keep going up.”

• “The area has also lost many jobs.”

• “There have been two main reasons.”

• “The company wants to build a biomass plant in our town.”

• “Managing our forests will provide a local energy source year

  after year.”

Choose two sentences that describe solutions the author gives.

• "We’ve had high heating costs for the past few winters.”

• “Some industries have moved to places where energy costs

  aren’t so high.”

• “The plant would need thousands of tons of wood chips

  each year.”

• “A biomass plant could bring lower energy costs in the future.”

• “It would also put people to work in the area’s forests.”

Which two sentences from the passage support the argument that a biomass plant would help the town?

• "We’ve had high heating costs for the past few winters.”

• It could also burn things like dead cornstalks.”

• “It has been hard to attract new industries even though we have many skilled workers.”

• “A biomass plant could bring lower energy costs in the future.”

• “Managing our forests will provide a local energy source year after year.”