This level of government provides services for a city or town.
What is local?
100
Democracy is known as government for the ________, by the _________ people.
What is people?
100
This branch of government is responsible for writing the nation's laws.
What is the legislative branch?
100
This person is elected to lead a city or town.
What is the mayor?
200
This famous Greek building was a temple to honor the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
200
This level of government includes a tax commissioner who collects taxes and decides what the tax money will pay for.
What is county?
200
This form of democracy allows citizens to decide on issues directly.
What is direct democracy?
200
Our country has 3 branches of government working together in order to maintain a balance of _______________.
What is power?
200
This person is elected to lead the whole country.
Who is the president?
300
This international sporting event, featuring athletes competing from many different countries, began in ancient Greece and is a tradition that continues in the modern world.
What are the Olympics?
300
This level of government makes decisions that affect the whole country.
What is national or federal?
300
This form of democracy allows citizens to elect representatives to decide on issues.
What is representative democracy?
300
The Executive branch works in this famous government building.
What is the White House?
300
This person is elected to lead a state.
Who is the governor?
400
This architectural feature was used on many Greek temples and is seen on many modern United States government buildings.
What are columns?
400
The Georgia State Supreme Court is a part of this level of government.
What is state?
400
This is a group of people who decide if a criminal is guilty or innocent.
What is a jury?
400
This branch of government decides if a law is constitutional and interprets the meaning of laws.
What is the Judicial branch?
400
This group is elected to Congress to help write laws for our country. There are 2 elected from each state.
What is the senate (or senators)?
500
The country Greece is in the shape of this landform--surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
500
The group of people helps to write laws and make rules on the local level of government.
What is the city council?
500
Ancient Athenians would gather together in a big meeting called the _______, where they would discuss and vote on laws.
What is the Assembly?
500
This branch of government is the only branch that has the power to veto a law.
What is the Executive branch?
500
This person is elected to lead the county government.