Basic Training - Core - 3 - Identify - Level: 05

How can you fix a sentence with a misplaced modifier?

• Change the modifier
• Move the modifier
• Delete the modifier
• Write a new sentence

The police chased the bear in the squad car.

This sentence needs to be corrected because of the ____________.

The grateful soldier relaxed after years of battle in his living room.

• faulty parallelism
• a misplaced modifier
• running on
• comma errors

Another word for the structure of language is ___________.

• mechanics
• word usage
• grammar
• vocabulary

Grammar is called the ____________ of language.

• word usage
• structure
• vocabulary
• mechanics

What is the anxiety or excitement about an outcome in a story?

• fear
• suspect
• motive
• suspense

The new girl at school didn’t talk to anyone all day. When the teacher called on her she looked down at her desk. I don’t think she made any friends on her first day.

From this situation we can guess that the new girl is probably _________________.

• kind
• shy
• funny
• mean

“Alot” is ________________________

• a word that means, “few”
• a word used to mean, “many”
• a word that often ends a sentence
• not a word in the English dictionary

An idiom is a ________________________.

• phrase or expression with a different meaning
• phrase that might not make sense
• phrase or expression meaning what it says
• term for a person with low aptitude

The meaning of a word is called the ___________.

• description
• definition
• dictation
• etymology

Select the correct pronoun to complete this sentence.

Both of the boys turned ___________________ homework in late.

• their
• his or her
• his
• her

This is a noun (or group of words acting as a noun) to which a pronoun refers.

• interrogative pronoun
• reflexive pronoun
• subject
• antecedent

What type of word is Everyone?

Everyone reads a part of the novel to the class.

• pronoun
• proper noun
• indefinite pronoun
• verb

Find the superlative form of the adjective delicious.

• deliciouser
• deliciousest
• more delicious
• most delicious

What is the noun, proper noun, or compound noun being used as an adjective in the following sentence?

The story came from a newspaper reporter.

• reporter
• newspaper
• came
• from

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only Chevrolets.}

A.  Among
B.  their
C.  too
D.  No change is necessary.

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only over thirty years old.}

A. Between
B. there
C. too
D. No change is necessary.

^{the fifty signs we saw on the trip, were advertising lawyers.}

A. Between
B. their
C. two
D. No change is necessary.

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only two .}

A. Between
B. their
C. Fords
D. No change is necessary.

^{the fifty signs we saw downtown, were only advertising restaurants.}

A. Between
B. their
C. too
D. No change is necessary.

An electronics store is having a sale on all their TVs. The regular price of a TV is $900, and the sale is for 30% off. How much money would you end up saving if you bought a TV during this sale?

• $270.00
• $300.00
• $630.00
• $1170.00

An alert was sent out to a small town that said, because there was a drought, the price of corn would be increasing by 7%. The price of corn before the alert was $1.70. What will the price of corn be after the alert?

• $2.03
• $1.82
• $1.77
• $1.58

If it takes Chelsey 3 hours to wash a car, and it takes Sammie 2 hours to wash that same car, how long would it take to wash the car if they worked together?

• 5 hours 0 minutes
• 2 hours 20 minutes
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• 1 hour 12 minutes

Kaitlyn is baking cookies at home. The recipe calls for    of a cup of flour, but she wants to triple the recipe. After tripling the amount of flour, she splits what she has into two separate bowls. How much flour is in one of the bowls?

If    and    what does    represent?

• 0
• 60
• 68
• 72

If and , which of the following is equivalent to   ?

What is the equation of a line that is parallel to      and passes through the point ?

Solve for x.

Toni went flower shopping for Mother’s Day and picked out a bouquet of tulips and roses. The bouquet had a total of 16 flowers and cost $31.50. If the roses were worth $2.25 each and the tulips were worth $1.50 each, how many roses were in the bouquet?

• 6
• 10
• 12
• 16

If   and , what does equal?

• -2
•  0
•  1
•  5

Consider the similar images, . If and what is the scale factor going from to ?

A tent is pitched with one pole in the center and 4 cords running from the top of the center pole down to the ground in all 4 corners. The center pole is 8 feet tall. If the cords are fastened to the ground 6 feet from the center pole, how many feet of cord is needed to pitch the tent?

• 4 feet
• 32 feet
• 40 feet
• 56 feet

A square pyramid how many number of faces?

• 3
• 4
• 5
• 9

All ___________ are rectangles but not all rectangles are _____________.

• squares … squares
• circles … circles
• parallelograms … parallelograms
• quadrilaterals … quadrilaterals

What is the next term in the geometric sequence 32, -8, 2, ____?

• 1/2
• 1/4
• – 1/2
• – 1/4

Carolyn is driving a long way to see her friend. The GPS says, with no stops or traffic, it will take her 23 hours and 26 minutes. If she takes an extra 9 hours for all breaks and traffic, and started her trip at 9:36 am, at what time will she arrive at her friend’s house?

• 10:02 am
• 5:36 pm
• 6:02 pm
• 7:26 pm

Ichiro rode 3 kilometers on his bike. His sister Amber rode 3500 meters on her bike on the same day. Who rode the farthest and how much farther did they ride?

• Amber; 500 meters
• Amber; 350 meters
• Ichiro; 500 meters
• Ichiro; 1/2 kilometer

Six bikers are on a relay team and must ride 17,500 meters each. How many kilometers will they ride as a team in total?

• 10.5 km
• 105 km
• 1050 km
• 105,000 km

Adana wants to send two boxes of oranges to a friend. Each box can hold a mass of 5 kg. If each orange has a mass of 100g, what is the maximum number of oranges she can send?

• 10
• 50
• 100
• 1000

Susan wants to paint her entire room, except for the floor. The length of the room is 12 feet, the width is 8 feet and the height is 10 feet. There are two windows in her room, each measuring 2 feet wide by 3 feet tall. If a gallon of paint will cover 32 square feet, how many gallons of paint will Susan need to paint her room?

• 6
• 10
• 15
• 16

Mrs. Ciencia’s 4th-grade class is conducting an experiment to determine how the amount of sunlight affects the growth of carrots. The ______________ variable is the sunlight.

• independent
• controlled
• dependent
• observed

Mr. Ciencio’s 5th-grade class is conducting an experiment to determine the effect of sleep deprivation on student test scores. The ______________ variable is the amount of sleep.

• dependent
• controlled
• observed
• independent

Mrs. Ciencia’s 6th-grade class conducted an experiment to determine if time studying could cause a change in quiz scores. The dependent variable is the _________________.

• students’ gender
• class grade level
• quiz scores
• time studying

Mrs. Ciencia explained that quiz scores could change depending on many factors such as how hungry you were or how much sleep you got the night before the quiz. She was explaining _____________ variables.

• observed
• independent
• dependent
• controllable

Mr. Ciencio pointed out during the experiment that an independent variable (sunlight) had caused a change in the _______________ variable (plant growth).

• explicit
• measurable
• observed
• dependent

Mr. Ranew explained to his 7th-grade science class that an electric ___________ is like a pathway made of wires that electrons can flow through.

• circuit
• current
• conductor
• insulator

Mr. Tacker demonstrated to his 6th-grade science students that when an electric switch is turned off,  it makes a gap in the _____________. Therefore, the electrons are not able to flow around the atom’s nucleus.

• wire
• conductor
• insulator
• circuit

During the 6th-grade science class, Mr. Leavit explained, “Electricity is a type of ____________ that can build up in one place, or flow from one place to another.”

• friction
• insulation
• energy
• conduction

Mrs. Fisher created a lesson that demonstrated a science phenomenon to her 3rd-grade science class. She instructed each student to blow up a balloon, then rub on their hair. She explained that this created __________ electricity, which gathers energy in one place.

• safe
• static
• current
• latent

Mr. Berendt conducted a demonstration for his 7th-grade science class. He explained that a _____________ is like a capacitor because it stores energy. However, it’s unique because it discharges that energy slowly.

• motor
• insulator
• conductor
• battery

The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind that is carrying it, and is deposited in a new location is called ______________.

• erosion
• deposition
• drainage
• runoff

The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil is called ___________.

• erosion
• drainage
• sediment
• deposition

________________ rocks come from other rocks that have been worn down by wind, rain and snow.

• Metamorphic
• Polished
• Sedimentary
• Igneous

______________ rocks are formed by solidification of cooled magma either below (plutonic) or above (volcanic) the surface of the earth.

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Crystalized
• Metamorphic

_____________ rocks, often found in mountainous regions, are made by either heating up or squashing the earth’s crust.

• Metamorphic
• Igneous
• Mineralized
• Sedimentary

Mr. Tacker demonstrated to his 3rd-grade science students how the sun is positioned at the center of our _______________.

• universe
• solar system
• galaxy
• cosmos

The _______________, believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter, contains a vast number of galaxies and has been expanding since its creation.

• universe
• solar system
• Milky Way
• Big Bang

Mr. Berendt explained to his 5th-grade science students, “Our solar system is a part of a galaxy of millions of stars, called the ________________.”

• cosmos
• universe
• Big Bang
• Milky Way

Mr. Sander explained to his 6th-grade science students, “Most astronomers believe the theory that the universe began in a Big Bang about 14 __________ years ago.”

• hundred
• thousand
• million
• billion

________ are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

• Tides
• Waves
• Currents
• Phases

The Sons of Liberty, with the support of Paul Revere, are known to oppose the injustices brought forth to them by whom?

• The Federalists
• The Loyalists
• The Red Coats
• King George III

The ____________________ was issued by King George III after British acquisition of North American territory from the French. Colonists were forbidden to move westward beyond Appalachia.

• Proclamation of Rebellion
• Stamp Act of 1765
• Royal Proclamation of 1763
• Federalist Papers

Prior to the American Revolutionary War, the British Parliament passed The Stamp Act. Many American colonists were enraged because the new law  _________________.

• created a museum to honor King George III
• forbade the production of stamps by colonists
• increased the their fees for sending letters to Great Britain
• required them to pay a tax on every piece of paper they used

The ________________ is an historical event in 1770 America that fueled animosity of the colonists towards the British.

• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• attack on Fort Sumter
• enactment of the Intolerable Acts

The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, ________.

• 1776
• 1789
• 1812
• 1865

_____________ is the British enlightenment writer was known for his ideas influencing the creation of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and more. His works also influenced Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire.

• John Locke
• Francis Hutcheson
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Hancock

World War I occurred during the years ___________.

• 1914 – 1918
• 1939 – 1945
• 1950 – 1953
• 1964 – 1974

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance- and Reformation-era mathematician and astronomer. Among his most famous works is a model depicting that the  _______________.

• Sun revolves around the earth
• Sun will burn out in about 10,000 years
• Sun is at the center of the universe
• Earth is at the center of the universe

Mesopotamia is a historical region in West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system. Social scientists nicknamed this area, ________________.

• The Land of the Lost
• The Gathering of Cultures
• The Cradle of Civilization
• The City Between Two Rivers

Throughout antiquity, Egypt’s standing as a powerful nation relied on its agricultural wealth and, therefore, on the __________.

• Great Pyramids
• Nile River
• favor of the gods
• invention of papyrus

A ___________ is a cultural concept; any physical material constituting part of Earth that people need and value.

• resource
• supply
• nutriment
• supplement

Maps provide a way for students to understand the makeup of a given piece of land. Maps might include features like altitude, resources, territories and more. The _________ is included to explain the meaning of the symbols, lines, colors, and indicators.

• grid
• scale
• legend
• title

The term that refers to all individuals residing in a town, area, country is __________________.

• per capita
• population
• quantification
• census

The greatest impact on ecosystems has been caused by _________.

• climate
• hurricanes
• earthquakes
• humans

Environments are similar to ecosystems; they must maintain ___________, a balance of production and consumption.

• equilibrium
• abundance
• homology
• sustainability

The U.S. Constitution provides for three branches of the federal government. The Legislative branch is charged with creating laws and the Executive branch enforces laws. Which branch is assigned with interpreting the law?

• The Supreme Court
• The Interpretive branch
• The Judicial branch
• The Judgement branch

The federal powers along with state and local powers all serve purposes within the government. The federal powers apply to the nation as a whole and the state and local powers serve their respective states and municipalities. Of all of their collective powers, which of the following are shared by both the federal and state/local governments?

• establish election procedures
• declare war
• levy taxes
• conduct foreign affairs

The head of the _________________ branch of the United States is the president, whose powers include being able to veto, or reject, a proposal for a law.

• legislative
• judicial
• executive
• supreme

The ____________ Amendment to the United States Constitution makes local government a matter of state rather than federal law, with special cases for territories and the District of Columbia.

• First
• Fifth
• Tenth
• Twenty-Seventh

Which of these represents the lowest level of the U.S. federal court system?

• U.S. District Courts
• U.S. Court of Appeals
• U. S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Congress