Natural Disasters
Name 5 types of natural disasters.
What are: blizzard, wildfire, tornado, hurricane, tsunami, flood, thunderstorm, avalanche, drought, disease?
Word for separating blacks and whites.
What is segregation?
The 3 branches of government
******Extra 200 points if you tell the responsibilities of branch
What are Legislative (make the laws), Executive (follow the laws), and Judicial (interpret the laws)?
This is the first step in a bill becoming a law.
What is having an idea?
What is another name for the Legislative Branch of the United States government?
What is Congress?
Most common natural disaster. Caused when water overflows and moves onto land. Can be caused by prolonged periods of heavy rain or other natural disaster (hurricanes tsunamis).
What is a flood?
This speech was given at the 1963 March on Washington. It was 17 minutes long and a big part of it was not planned.
What is his, "I Have a Dream" speech?
Elected every 4 years (can serve a maximum of 2 terms for a total of 8 years). Must be 35 years old, a natural-born citizen, and a US resident for 14 years. Signs or vetoes bills, commands the military. Lives and works in the White House.
What is the President?
Who can come up with the idea for a new law?
What is anybody (special interest groups, the President, Congress or regular people of the US)?
Woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus.
This refusal led to this event.
Who is Rosa Parks?
What is the Mongomery Bus Boycott?
A powerful storm that begins over the Atlantic Ocean when warm moist air rises and is replaced by cooler air. Called by different names depending on the part of the world where they occur (Indian Ocean-cyclones, Southeast Asia-typhoons). Must have wind speed of at least 74 miles per hour. Categorized 1-5 according to its wind strength.
The center is called this... It is generally very calm.
What is a hurricane?
What is the eye?
Mahatma Ghandi, an activist from India, inspired many of Dr. King's methods. Name the type of protests they believed in.
What are nonviolent?
This part of Congress is made up of 435 members. Each state has a different number of these members, depending on the population. Members are elected for 2 year terms, must be at least 25 years old, must be a US citizen for at least 9 years and must live in the state they represent.
What is the House of Repesentatives?
Where a bill is sent after it has been passed by Congress?
What is to the President?
20% of this natural disaster can be caused by lightning strikes, volcanic eruptions, or sparks from falling trees. while 80% are caused by human carelessness.
What is a wildfire?
A column of winds that spins very fast. Can flatten everything in its path. Most form from Northern Texas to South Dakota and Missouri to the Rocky Mountains. Can be funnel-shaped or like a wedge.Winds speeds can be between 65 and 259 miles per hour. There are 3 different types (supercell-last for a long time, biggest and most destructive, waterspouts-forms over the water, and landspout-forms over land and are generally weak).
What is a tornado?
1964 was an important year for Dr. King. Name the 2 important events that happened.
What are the Civil Rights Act became a law and Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize?
This part of Congress is made up of 100 members (2 from each state), Members are elected for 6-year terms, must be at least 30 years old, must be a US citizen for at least 9 years, and must live in the state they represent.
What is the Senate?
It is called this when the President rejects a bill and refuses to sign it.
What is a veto?
Civil rights leaders had many goals. These were the biggest goals (name at least 2).
What were ending segregation, making discrimination illegal, and giving African Americans the right to vote.
A shock wave that moves through the earth, causing violent shaking of the Earth's surface.
Name the two main causes.
How the strength is categorized.
Natural disaster that can be triggered by.
***Extra 500 points if can answer all these questions
What is an earthquake?
What are collision of tectonic plates and volcanic eruptions?
What is the Moment Magnitude Scale (MMS) formerly knows as the Richter Scale?
What is a tsunami?
The US celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day every January, but it does not have a specific date. When is Martin Luther King celebrated?
What is the third Monday of January?
Currently the number of judges on the Supreme Court.
The length of a judge's term on the Supreme Court?
The way a judge gets on the Supreme Court?
***Extra 500 points if can answer all these questions
What is 9?
What is until the judge retires or dies?
What is appointed by the President?
Once a bill has been passed by Congress, the President has this length of time to sign it into law?
What is 10 days?
If the president vetoes a bill, this is what Congress can do to override his veto and turn the bill into law.
A.They can vote again on the bill and if it passes by a two-thirds majority, then it becomes a law.
B. They can order the army to force the president to sign the law.
C. They can pass the law when the president is on vacation and get the vice president to sign.
D. They can ask the Supreme Court to overrule the president.
What is A. they can vote again on the bill and if it passes by a two-thirds majority, then it becomes a law?