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SWET 1B Error Identification

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

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Class
Date
1.

During the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s, much African American writers, artists, and musicians came to Harlem in New York City, creating a cultural center there.

a)

much

b)

musicians

c)

creating

d)

center

2.

In Concord, Massachusetts, there is a museum commemorating the life of Louisa May Alcott, the author the nineteenth-century novel Little Women.

a)

museum

b)

author

c)

the

d)

novel

3.

Lactose, a sugar present in milk, is one of simple sugars used in food preparations for infants

a)

present

b)

of

c)

simple

d)

food

4.

Jackson, Michigan, a city who was settled in 1829, was named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States

a)

a

b)

who

c)

settled

d)

for

5.

Boulder, Colorado, is only city in the United States that derives its water supply from a glacier.

a)

is only

b)

that

c)

water supply

d)

a

6.

Construction of first skyscraper began in Chicago in 1883 with the ten-story Home Insurance Building.

a)

Construction

b)

of first

c)

began in

d)

with

7.

The Mississippi riverboat, which evolved from simpler steamship of the early 1800’s, became the dominant form of passenger transport on the Mississippi River.

a)

evolved

b)

steamship

c)

dominant

d)

passenger transport

8.

Modern stringed instruments comprise both instruments of ancient origin, such as the harp, and the developed recently family of bowed instruments that includes the violin

a)

both

b)

of ancient

c)

such as

d)

developed recently

9.

Stars provided early astronomer with a reference system for measuring the motions of planets, the Moon, and the Sun.

a)

astronomer

b)

reference

c)

for

d)

the motions

10.

The coal industry is important to every industrial nations because most other industries are directly or indirectly dependent on it

a)

every

b)

because

c)

other

d)

dependent

11.

The brightly colored kingfisher that perches until it sights a fish, then dives into the water to catch its prey.

a)

brightly

b)

that perches

c)

the water

d)

its

12.

Neptune circles the Sun once every 164.8 Earth years, and its day --- one rotation its axis --- is 15.8 hours.

a)

circles

b)

every

c)

rotation its

d)

hours

13.

Observable comets are occasionally attracted toward the inner Solar System by the fields gravitational of nearby stars and giant molecular clouds.

a)

occasionally attracted

b)

inner

c)

fields gravitational

d)

nearby

14.

A single bacterium has the potential to produce 16 million copies of themselves in a day.

a)

single

b)

potential

c)

produce

d)

themselves

15.

Atoms are held together by the electrical forces of attraction between each negative electron and a positive protons within the nucleus.

a)

by the

b)

a

c)

positive

d)

within

16.

The original aim of encyclopedias was to provide a general educational.

a)

original

b)

of encyclopedias

c)

to provide

d)

educational

17.

Icebergs are usually white, blue, or green, even although some are black due to rock material incorporated in them

a)

usually

b)

even although

c)

rock material

d)

them

18.

Both adult ladybugs and their larvae are voracious eaters of aphids, scale insects, and another plant pests.

a)

Both

b)

their

c)

eaters of

d)

another

19.

Early English burlesque often ridiculed celebrated literary works and sentimentally drama.

a)

Early

b)

celebrated

c)

works

d)

sentimentally

20.

Crystals of pure quartz, usually called rock crystal, are coarseness, colorless, and transparent.

a)

Crystals

b)

pure

c)

usually called

d)

coarseness

21.

Of 120 minerals known to have been used as gemstones, only about 25 are in common use in today jewelry.

a)

mineral known

b)

as gemstones

c)

common use

d)

today jewelry

22.

One of the thirteen original state of the United States, North Carolina lies on the Atlantic coast midway between New York and Florida.

a)

state

b)

lies

c)

midway

d)

and

23.

The various peoples who developed North America have made it a world leader economic .

a)

peoples

b)

developed

c)

have made it

d)

leader economic