The History of Our United States Quiz 10

Match the following

• Garrett Morgan

• brought the steel industry to America (p. 241)

• Andrew Carnegie

•  built and launched the first successful liquid-fuel rocket (p. 253)

• Henry Ford

•  invented the gas mask (p. 249)

• Robert Goddard

• developed the assembly line (p. 247)

Match the following

• John D. Rockefeller

• founded Standard Oil Company (p. 242)

• Wilbur and Orville

  Wright

•  invented the phonograph (p. 245)

•  Robert Fulton

•  built and flew the first successful airplane (pp. 251-252)

• Thomas Edison

•  invented the steamboat (p. 240)

The ______ is the line where the sky seems to meet the earth.

• equator
• meridian
• horizon

A ____ is the highest point of a mountain; a mountain that has a pointed top.

• summit
• ridge
• peak

 A(n) ______ is a narrow strip of land which connects two larger bodies of land.

• delta
• peninsula
• isthmus

A(n) ____ is a gently raised area of the earth's surface smaller than a mountain.

• mountain peak
• plateau
• hill

 A ______ is a lowland between hills or mountains.

• plateau
• canyon
• valley

A _____ is a flat or level area of land.

• plain
• mountain
• valley

A(n)_______ is an opening in the earth's surface from which hot water and steam

shoot up at certain times.

• volcano
• geyser
• hot spring

A(n) (a)   is a manufacturing business that uses factories to produce products. (p. 239)