Executive Departments Matching Activity

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Executive Departments Scavenger Hunt

Please use page 252 of your textbook to identify to which Executive Department the following items would belong. Make sure that you can explain why these would fall in the Department you designated, since we will be discussing the answers as a class. Good luck!

Item / Department of: / Why?
Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant, Susquehanna, PA
Martha Stewart,
federal prison inmate
U.S. military base at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Daniel Rooney,
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
A Retired U.S. Marine Corps Officer
The FDA—Food and Drug Administration
Seneca Valley Middle School
TSA—Transportation
Security Administration
U.S. Mint
Yellowstone National Park
Research on B-2 Bomber
Soergel’s Farm & Orchards
Patent for a new Microwave Oven
Medicare
U.S. Secret Service
IRS—Internal Revenue Service
I-79
U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln,
Aircraft Carrier
Job Training Programs
Hybrid Fuel Cells
Trade Negotiations with Canada
Somnus—a vaccine for a respiratory disease that afflicts dairy cattle
Laws about Working Conditions
Low income housing development
FBI—Federal Bureau
of Investigations