Name:__________________                                                                                   

 

Date:___________________

 

Homeroom:_____________________

 

Branches of the Government

Scavenger Hunt

 

 

 

1.     Name the three branches of the United States government.

 

1.     _________________________________________________________

 

2.     _________________________________________________________

 

3.     _________________________________________________________

 

 

2.     What makes up the Legislative branch of the government?

 

 

 

 

3.     Congress is divided into two parts.  Name them.

 

1.     __________________________________________________

 

2.     __________________________________________________

 

 

4.     What are three powers of Congress?

 

1.     ___________________________________________________________

 

2.     ___________________________________________________________

 

3.     ___________________________________________________________

 

 

5.     How many senators are elected from each state?  ___________________________

 

 

 

 

6.     What are the requirements to be a senator?  _______________________________

 

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7.     States usually have more representatives than they do senators.  How do they

decide how many representatives each state can have?

 

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8.      How many representatives are there from Georgia?_________________________

 

 

9.     What does the Judicial branch of the government do?________________________

 

 

10.   What branch of the government is the president part of?_____________________

 

 

11.  Who else works in the same branch as the president? _______________________