Grade 8 - Revision Topic 4 - The Industrial Revolution

How did the landscape look in the 1750's?

How did the landscape look in the 1830's?

Read the following passage and pick the answer that has the correct order of the missing words:

Britain was an ____ society where ___ would grow vegetables such as _____ by ____ seeds into the land. They would ____ the land by letting some paddocks lie ____.

As towns grew and more buildings popped up in what was once a rural society, transportation grew as well. What was the name of the type of transportation invented that helped grow towns?

Click all the things that the steam engine could be used for.

There was also another machine that really helped industry to grow. What was the name of this machine?

Another name given to the spinning frame is the what?

The spinning frame was also known as the water wheel because it was spun by cotton.

True or False?

One way to get workers to work in your factories, to earn you a lot of money, is to do what?

When Richard Arkwright updated the spinning Jenny, he invented a way in which it could be powered by what?

The water frame was the first machine in history that could produce high quality yarn that was spun evenly and quickly.

True or False?

What was the name of the spinning frame that was a hybrid of the spinning Jenny and the water frame?

This new spinning machine could do what?

Tick all that apply.

The Industrial Revolution was a time period where the rural, agricultural society was almost a thing of the past. The steam engine helped transport people and products to other places and power machines. Families left the land and worked in new factories. True or False?