Government and Citizenship
This is a group of people who have the power to make and enforce laws for a country or area.
What is a government?
Materials found in nature that people use, like water, trees, and animals.
What are natural resources?
The word for moving from one place to another, either inside a country or across borders.
What is migration?
People who buy goods and services are called this.
What are consumers?
This student can always be found drawing beautiful pencil drawings.
Who is Nehemias or Mariana?
This document sets up a country’s government and lists basic rules and freedoms.
What is a constitution?
Resources that can be replaced by Earth or people, for example water and plants.
What are renewable resources?
A person who moves INTO a new country to live there permanently is called this.
What is an immigrant?
The amount of a good or service that sellers have available is called...
What is supply?
Which student has very pretty, neat handwriting?
Who is Alantis?
Name the form of government where citizens elect representatives to make decisions for them.
When many trees are cut down and the forest is lost in a region, this is called...
What is deforestation?
Push or Pull: A war or danger that forces people to leave is called a _____ factor.
What is a push factor?
If a shop sells 25 dresses at 8585 each, the total money the shop makes before expenses is called this.
What is revenue?
Name one of the three students who will almost always answer a question of Ms. McGinnis?
Who is Camryn, Reilyn, or Kenneth?
This type of government involves government control of people's lives.
Name one technology mentioned that helps reduce pollution by using energy from the sun.
What are solar panels, hybrid cards, or wind turbines?
From 1892 to 1924, this island was the main immigration station where millions were processed when coming to the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
Trade within one country is called...
What is domestic trade?
This student wants to be a neurosurgeon one day.
Who is Camryn?
This type of government involves one person (not a king) ruling with absolute power, usually through violence.
What is a dictatorship?
This process removes materials from the Earth (like mining or drilling) and can harm the environment if done carelessly.
What is extracting (natural resources)?
The Statue of Liberty became a symbol for immigrants. Name one of the ideas that it symbolized.
What is liberty, freedom, or hope?
Economists measure a country's total value of goods and services produced in a year with this term.
What is gross domestic product (GDP)?
This is the name of the witch that Ms. McGinnis dressed as back during Homecoming Week.
Who is Minerva McGonagall?