Civics
This document is the supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This is the basic economic problem of having limited resources but unlimited wants.
What is scarcity?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This is the basic unit of life.
What is the cell?
This U.S. holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November
What is Thanksgiving?
The three branches of the U.S. government are the Legislative, Executive, and this branch
What is the Judicial branch?
The amount of goods and services people are willing and able to buy is known as this
What is demand?
The U.S. declared independence from this country in 1776
What is Great Britain?
These organelles are known as the “powerhouse” of the cell
What are mitochondria?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
This group makes federal laws in the United States.
What is Congress?
When prices rise across the economy, it is called this.
What is inflation?
This war between the North and South ended slavery in the United States
What is the Civil War?
DNA stands for this.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
This famous artist painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This type of economic system is based on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism (or market economy)?
The U.S. bought this large territory from France in 1803, doubling its size.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight is called this
What is photosynthesis?
The largest ocean on Earth is this one.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This principle prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
GDP stands for this and measures the total value of goods and services produced
What is Gross Domestic Product?
This movement during the 1950s and 1960s aimed to end racial segregation and discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This scientist is known as the father of modern evolution for his theory of natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
This Shakespeare play features the line “To be or not to be.”
What is Hamlet?