What is the name of the person that oversees a community?
The mayor/Sherman mayor is Carolyn Wacker
100
What is it called when you earn money?
Income
100
A fire fighter is considered a
A. Producer
B. consumer
C. Service Worker
C. Service woriker
100
What are 2 good ways to get information about issues in your community?
Newspaper and listening to the news
200
Police, firefighters, EMT's, and paramedics are examples of what"
First responders
200
What is the name of the person that oversees a state?
The governor/Greg Abbott
200
What does it mean when a farmer irrigates his crops?
Irrigate means to water
200
If you go to the store to buy food are you a consumer or producer.
Consumer
200
What are 2 ways to conserve water?
Water your lawn less, take shorter showers, turn water off when you brush your teeth
300
Name 5 services the government provides for a community.
Police departments, fire departments, schools, hospitals, museums, homeless shelters, libraries, and city parks.
300
What is the name of the person that oversees the United States?
The president/Barack Obama
300
Farmers use fertilizer to enrich the soil. How does this change a farm?
The farm will will produce more crops
300
If you are a consumer, what does that mean?
You buy things that others produce and use them
300
Mr. Wakefield finished school, volunteered at a homeless shelter, and coached a little league baseball team. Mr. Wakefield is an example of a ________________.
A good community citizen
400
A new school has been built in your community. How does the government get the money to build the new school?
By taxing the people living in the community or school district.
400
How are county judges, mayors, senators, governors, and presidents selected?
Citizens choose them in elections
400
Which of these is a modification to the environment?
A. Riding your bicycle to school
B. Cutting down trees to build a road
C. Driving down the road
B. Cutting down trees to build a road
400
Is a plant a producer or consumer?
Producer
400
What natural resource is used to build houses?
Trees
500
What does a first responder do?
They are the first ones to arrive at an emergency scene. They perform many duties that include: securing the scene, providing medical care, and caring for those involved.
500
I was the first hispanic female elected to the Texas House of Representatives? Who am I?
Irma Rangel
500
How can you be a good citizen helping the environment?
Answers vary....water conservation, turn out the lights when leaving a room, by not littering, and by picking up trash etc.
500
Is a farmer a producer or consumer?
He is both,
grows crops-producer
buys tractors, fertilizer, etc. consumer
500
Attending town meetings, serving as a mayor, writing a letter to your elected representative, and working on election day at a voting booth, are all examples of how citizens can participate in what?