CRCB Ch5 Exercise

CRCB Chapter 5 Exercise

a) General and Specific Ideas

1. cars
2. genetics
3. majors
4. matter
5. religions
6. research

5b) Identifying Topics

1. topic: holidays
2. poets
3. word games
4. health
5. information
6. teeth

5c) Identifying Topics in Paragraphs

1. Topic: value
2. appearance
3. advertising


5d) Questioning Yourself

1. Topic: America and women
2. aging
3. history of the earth
4. prostitution
5. car models
6. magic

5e) Finding Main ideas Using Word Clues

1.
find yourself at the mercy of your children in regards to computer technology lack of computer knowledge

2.
human expansion threatens the biosphere
example: humans clear forest or grasslands in order to provide for their own kind

3.
Clinton’s inauguration shares Martin Luther King Jr.’s view on racial equality but not on violence
Clinton and Martin Luther King Jr. represent very different social philosophies


5f) General and Specific Statements

1. b. The Catholic and Jewish religions have many followers.
2. b. The black widow is venomous spider with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of its abdomen.
3. b. Piaget theorized that all children go through similar stages of cognitive development, each stage predicted by the child’s age.
4. b. The fatty tissue in our body supports organs, pads them from injury, and helps the body to retain heat.
5. a. A fallacy is an error in reasoning.
6. a. Children of all ages like video games.