What is Government?
Documents & Rights
Economics Basics
Economic Systems
Trade and Global Economy
100

This is a group of people who make laws and help run a country or community.

What is the government?

100

This document starts with “We the People.”

What is the U.S. Constitution?

100

These are items you can touch, like food or toys.

What are goods?

100

In this economy, producers make all decisions and people can buy what they want.

What is a market economy?

100

Goods sent out of a country are called this.

What are exports?

200

This type of democracy allows citizens to vote for their leaders.

What is a representative democracy?

200

The Canadian version of the Constitution is called this.

What is the British North America Act?

200

These are jobs done by others, like getting a haircut.

What are services?

200

In this economy, traditions and customs guide economic choices.

What is a traditional economy?

200

Goods brought into a country are called this.

What are imports?

300

This country has a parliamentary democracy.

What is Canada?

300

This term describes a document written by someone who witnessed the event.

What is a primary source?

300

The difference between a need and a want is that needs help you do this.

What is survive (or live)?

300

In this economy, the government controls what is made and how much it costs.

What is a command economy?

300

When countries rely on each other to trade, it's called this.

What is interdependence?

400

This document outlines the laws and beliefs a country follows.

What is a constitution?

400

This document declared the colonies free from British rule.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

400

When supply is high and demand is low, this happens to prices.

What is they go down?

400

This economy has parts of both market and command systems.

What is a mixed economy?

400

A tax placed on goods coming into a country is called this.

What is a tariff?

500

A government where one person or group has total control is called this.

What is a dictatorship (or command government)?

500

This type of democracy is based on laws that protect people’s rights.

What is a constitutional democracy?

500

This is when there are not enough goods to meet everyone’s wants.

What is scarcity?

500

In a mixed economy, who owns the businesses?

What are the people (or citizens)?

500

This is when a government completely bans trade with another country.

What is an embargo?