Government Basics
Name the three branches of the U.S. government.
What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
Picking up trash without compensation or helping neighbors exemplifies this civic responsibility.
What is community service?
These are rules made to keep people safe and maintain order.
What is laws?
This material takes hundreds of years to break down and pollutes oceans.
What is plastic?
This is when someone hurts, threatens, or picks on another person on purpose, over and over.
What is bullying?
What document is the highest law in the United States?
What is the Constitution?
Who is the leader of a city or town?(e.g. Edward I. Koch )
Who is the mayor?
This is the system used to decide if someone broke the law.
What is the court system?
This term describes the warming of the Earth due to greenhouse gases.
What is global warming?
This kind of bullying happens online through texts, social media, or games.
What is cyberbullying?
Who is the head of the Executive Branch?
What is the President?
Teens can make change in their communities by starting one of these.
What is a petition?
If you’re accused of a crime, you have the right to one of these in court.
What is a lawyer?
Cutting down too many trees without replacing them is called this.
What is deforestation?
A person who watches bullying and doesn’t do anything is called this.
What is a bystander?
This group makes laws in the United States.
What is Congress?
This term means caring and taking responsibility for your community.
What is civic duty?
This person makes sure trials are fair and follow the law.
Who is a judge?
This energy comes from the sun and is better for the planet.
What is solar energy?
If you see someone being bullied, you should do this to help safely.
tell a trusted adult/ stand up for them?
This first ten amendments to the Constitution protect citizens' rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Writing letters to lawmakers is an example of this kind of action.
What is advocacy?
These people decide the verdict in some court cases.
Who are jurors?
This “R” means using something again instead of throwing it away.
What is reuse?
Trusted adults you can talk to about bullying include these people.
Who are teachers, parents, counselors, or school staff?