Mr.

Grove Civics Today textbook:

Civics Scavenger Hunt:

These questions are designed to help the student become familiar with the Civics Today
textbook. The questions can be answered by looking through the complete textbook.

1. How many authors does this textbook have?

2. What is the copyright date of this book?

3. How many chapters are in this book?

Focus on North Carolina Questions:

4. How many counties are in NC?

5. What is the State Bird?

6. What is the State Flower?

7. What is the State Vegetable?

8. What county are we in currently?

9. What city are we in currently?

10. What was the population of NC in 2000?

11. What was the population of the US in 2005?

12. What is North Carolina top Farm Product in 2005?

13. What demographic is largest in NC?

14. What demographic is largest in USA?

 15. What percentage of people are under 18 in NC?

16. What percentage of people are under 18 in US?

Chapter 1 Questions:

17. What is Civics?

18. How old is the concept of Citizenship?

19. What are values?

20. What are your most important values? (This is an opinion question)

21. What is Naturalization?

22. What is an alien?

23. How long must you live in the US to gain citizenship?

24. What must you do to gain citizenship?

25. Do you have to speak English to gain citizenship?

26. Name three ways a person can lose Citizenship:

27. What does it mean to Deport?

28. What is happening in the picture on pg 21?

 29. Name the 3 functions of Government and two parts of each function:

Located in the back of the textbook:

30. How many presidents have we had?

31. Who is the 44th President?

32. When was James Buchanan President (what years did he serve)?

33. How many people live in Louisiana?

34. What was the 30th State to enter the union?

35. How many people work at the Department of Transportation?

36. What Treaty was signed in 1972?

37. How many square miles is Rhode Island?

38. What year was the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education?

39. What page would you find Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream speech”?

40. What page would you find “lawsuit” in the index?