Branches of Government
This branch makes laws for the state of Virginia.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This industry includes jobs like doctors, teachers, and computer programmers.
What is the service industry?
This livestock product is Virginia’s most valuable today.
What is poultry or livestock products?
This type of system moves goods by roads, air, rail, and sea.
What is transportation?
This industry includes both food products and beverages.
What is manufacturing?
This person leads the Executive Branch in Virginia
Who is the Governor?
A major shipbuilding area is near this large body of water.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
These are two examples of crops grown in Virginia.
What are corn, peanuts, tomatoes, apples, soybeans, or tobacco?
Virginia exports this product made from a plant.
What is tobacco?
These two branches of Virginia's government work together to make and carry out laws.
What are the legislative and executive branches?
This branch makes sure state laws agree with the Virginia Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Name two manufactured products made in Virginia.
What are ships, beverages, tobacco products, or motor vehicle parts?
These two natural factors help agriculture thrive in Virginia.
What is fertile soil and a favorable climate?
These two items are examples of goods shipped from Virginia.
What are poultry, coal, or large ships?
This group decides whether laws follow the state constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
These are the two parts of the General Assembly.
What are the Senate and the House of Delegates?
This used to be Virginia’s top agricultural product but was replaced by livestock.
What is tobacco?
This mining resource was once important but is now used less.
What is coal?
This sector includes industries like telecommunications and computer systems.
What is the technology/communications industry?
Name one way communication has helped Virginia’s economy.
What is helping it connect with the global market or grow technology industries?
This is the main reason Virginia's government has three branches.
What is to make sure no branch has too much power?
This kind of job uses computers to design software or manage systems.
What is computer programming or systems design?
Virginia’s natural resources support this seafood-related industry.
What is fishing, crabbing, or oyster harvesting?
Virginia's economy is impacted by this national employer because many of its workers live in the state.
What is the federal government?
This is the name of Virginia’s law-making body.
What is the General Assembly?