1. Documentary evidence supports claims that __the New World about AD 1000.

2. By focusing on the interesting, _____the significant, the penny press newspapers of the 1830’s helped to change the concept of news.

3. _____ map dates back to about 3,000 B.C.

4. In the diurnal type of tidal oscillation, the alternate rise and fall of sea level, a single high water and a single low water occur __tidal day.

5. In 1974 the space probe Mariner 10 discovered _____Mercury’s surface is cratered by meteorite impacts.

6. Before _____of synthetic dyes, yarns were often colored by dyes obtained from natural vegetable and mineral matter.

7. John Lone’s physical grace and _____age, sex, and culture make him an extraordinary performer.

8. _____conventional black ink costs newspapers about thirty cents a pound, most rub-resistant inks add at least ten cents more per pound to the bill.

9. Nutritionists _____goat milk to be rich, nourishing, and readily digested.

10. Until the ninth century, written words were not actually separated, _____in some literary writing, dots or points were used to indicate divisions.

11. Thyme, _____, yields a medicinal oil containing thymol.

12. Although beavers rarely remain submerged for more than two minutes, they can stay underwater ___fifteen minutes before having to surface for air.

13. Thomas Paine, _____, wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet that identified the American colonies with the cause of liberty.

14. The celesta, an orchestral percussion instrument, resembles___

15. Amanda Way’s career as a social reformer____ in 1851 when, at an antislavery meeting in Indiana, she called for a state woman’s rights convention.