History of UAA
Technological Inventions that have changed the world
Unit 1 Vocabulary
Discoveries
Unit 1 Grammar
100

Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary.

The French Revolution caused ____ changes in many countries.

radical

100

Who Who is credited with inventing the light bulb in 1879

Thomas Edison

100

Fill in the blanks: 

The students are participating in _______ activities in order to get into college.

Extracurricular

100

Who was the first to discover electric?

Benjamin Franklin 

100

Which one is correct?

1. He runs very fast.

2. He ran very fastly to reach the bus stop.


1.

200

Where there any Turkish lessons in the early years of the school?

No

200

The discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic, is attributed to which scientist 

Alexander Fleming 

200

What is the difference between abstract and vague?

Abstract is not materialisticly existing vague is not spesific. 

200

Who found the internet?

Tim Burners Lee 

200

Complete the sentence?

Our teacher is ____ one out of all teachers. He has been teaching in this school for a longer time than any other teacher.

the most experienced

300

The site where the Kinney Cottage building is today was used as a ____ around 1925.

barn

300

What was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 that transformed global communication and access to information?

WWW

300

The tomatoes were _____ to sunlight

exposed

300

Who discovered the atomic bomb?


Oppenheimer 

300

superlative form of shy

shiest

400

In which year did UAA started accepting male students?

1990
400

How was penicillin invented?

When Fleming came back from holiday he realized that the petri dish was filled with the mould. It was created by accident.

400

He has been a tireless ______ for women's organizations and causes.

Advocate 

400

Who discovered the x-ray 

Wilhelm Roentgen

400

While he ______ (run) down the street, he _____ (see) his friend and ____ (wave) to say hello.

1. was running

2. saw

3.waved

500

In the early years after which grade did the classes divide into 3 courses which are colligate, commercial and home economics ?

9th grade 

500

Fill in the blanks

Before Johannes Gutenberg created the ____,  people used to write____ by______.

1. printing press

2. books

3. hand

500

She was extremely r____ while proofreading her paragraphs, which helped her produce impeccable work.

Hint:extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate

Rigorous 

500

Who completed the first circumnavigation of world? (which Magellan started)

Magellan's captain: Juan Sebastian Elcano

500

He ____(get up) every day at 7.00 a.m. and ____ (do) his homework while he ___ (eat) his breakfast.

1. gets up

2. does

3. is eating