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ANSWER KEY: a, c, d, d, b, c, a, b, d, c

HISTORY:
The Industrial Revolution
What Was the Industrial Revolution?, Textiles, Steam Power, Transportation, Iron and Coal, The Cotton Gin

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Literary Elements
Plot, Protagonist, Antagonist, Foreshadowing, Point of View, Setting

MATH:
Geometry
Polygons, Area, Perimeter, Circumference, Volume, Surface Area

SCIENCE:
THE Periodic Table
What Is the Periodic Table?, The History of the Periodic Table, Groups, Periods, Blocks, Names of the Elements

FOREIGN LANGUAGE:
Croatian
The Origins, Attempt at Standardizing Croatian, The Illyrian Movement and Forward, Phonology, Croatian Today, Useful Croatian Phrases

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

What Was the Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution can be broken into two parts: the first Industrial Revolution, which started in England and lasted from 1750 to 1850; and the second Industrial Revolution, which took place in America and lasted from 1850 to 1940. The Industrial Revolution was a great burst of technological advancement that changed the world from a rural, agricultural economy to that of an urban and industrial one.

LITERARY ELEMENTS

Plot
Simply put, the plot is the story found in literature, film, television, or other narrative work. It is the sequence of events that make up the story. German novelist Gustav Freytag considered the plot to any story to be composed of five parts: exposition, which introduces the main characters and their stories and relationships; a rising action, which begins with a conflict of some sort (this generally involves the character striving for a certain goal); the climax, which is the turning point of the story; the falling action, where loose ends are tied up; and lastly, the resolution or denouement.

GEOMETRY

Polygons
Geometry is the study of shapes and their properties. Polygons are particular types of shapes used in geometry. Polygons have many straight sides. With regular polygons, all of the angles and sides have to be the same. A shape with three sides and angles is called a triangle. A shape with four sides and angles is called a quadrilateral. A shape with five sides and angles is a pentagon, six makes a hexagon, and so on. A shape that has two pairs of parallel lines is called a parallelogram.

THE PERIODIC TABLE

What Is the Periodic Table?
The periodic table is a table displaying the various elements. There are currently 118 known elements. The elements are placed along the grid in accordance with how they look and how they act. Rows and columns also have particular meaning in the Periodic Table. If elements are in the same row (each row is considered a period), that means they have something in common. The elements in the center of the table are known as transition elements.

CROATIAN

The Origins
Croatian is a South Slavic language. The language developed from Old Church Slavonic which, in the ninth century, became the official language of the land. Based on the local dialect of Old Church Slavonic, Croatian developed and used three alphabets: Cyrillic, Glagolithic, and Latin. Over time, the language was strongly influenced by Slovenian and Serbian.

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION