Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 49

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Elias Howe

• A)invented the telegraph
• B)invented the sewing machine
• C)with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
• D)earned a medical degree, a first of its kind
• E)was a piano maker and immigrant
• F)helped found schools to train teachers and promoted the idea of free public education
• G)was the first clipper ship
• H)improved the steel plow, thereby making it possible to farm the Great Plains
• I)was the first commercial steamboat, built by Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton
• J)was a Jewish tailor who made work pants during the gold rush and would become the origin story of a major brand
• K)was a famous composer whose song "Oh! Susanna" emerged as a national favorite
• L)used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States

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Definitions:

Hydrophilic Heads

Refers to the water-attracting parts of molecules (such as those in phospholipids) that are oriented towards the water phases in cell membranes or emulsions.

Transitional Forms

Fossilized remains that show intermediate characteristics between ancestral species and their modern descendants, often cited as evidence of evolution.

Fossil Record

The collection of fossils that has been discovered, providing evidence of the history of life and evolutionary processes on Earth.

Reptiles

A group of cold-blooded animals with scaly skin that typically lay eggs on land, such as snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and turtles.