WorksheetsQuiz: Making Steam and Making Steel-5.T.C.2.c- Lesson 1
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is the main idea of paragraph 9?
The steam engine was invented in the 1900s.
Steam engines powered machines and revolutionized transportation during the Industrial Revolution.
Steamboats were more important than locomotives.
Transportation slowed down during the Industrial Revolution.
Which invention was patented by James Watt in 1781?
Steam turbine
Steam-powered engine
Internal combustion engine
Electric motor
What is the main idea of paragraph 10?
Steam engines could only run in factories.
Steam engines required water and fuel, and coal eventually replaced wood as the main fuel source.
Coal was never used for steam engines.
Steam engines were powered by electricity.
Why did coal become the major fuel source for steam power?
Coal was easier to transport.
Coal produced more energy and was more efficient than wood.
Coal was free to mine.
Coal was less harmful to the environment.
What is the main idea of paragraph 11?
Coal is no longer used for electricity.
Coal use declined in industry and transportation but remains important for electricity production.
Coal became the only source of energy in the 1950s.
Steam turbines are no longer used today.
According to the DOE, what percentage of U.S. electricity is produced using steam turbines?
45%
60%
90%
100%
What is the main idea of paragraph 12?
Steel was easy to make before the 1850s.
Steel was expensive and rare because the process to make it was slow and costly.
Steel was not useful for industrial purposes.
Steel was made from copper and zinc.
Before the 1850s, why was steel expensive?
It required rare minerals.
Few furnaces could get hot enough to melt wrought iron into steel.
Steel was imported from other countries.
Steel was not considered useful.
What is the main idea of paragraph 13?
The Bessemer method made steel production slower.
New processes in the 1850s allowed steel to be mass-produced quickly and cheaply.
Steel was no longer used after the 1850s.
Steel became weaker after the Bessemer process.
What was the major improvement introduced by the Bessemer method?
It used electricity instead of coal.
It allowed steel to be mass-produced quickly and cheaply.
It eliminated the need for iron ore.
It made steel stronger than iron.
What is the main idea of paragraph 14?
Steel was used only for building railroads.
The affordability of steel led to the growth of many industries and new products.
Cars were the first machines made from steel.
Steel became expensive and limited industrial progress.
Which industries benefited most from affordable steel?
Textile and agriculture
Railroads, construction, and automobile manufacturing
Mining and fishing
Printing and publishing
