Government & Economy Vocabulary
Across
- 2. system found in agricultural societies where people live the same way their parents and grandparents did; people produce what they need to survive.
- 5. the knowledge and skills a worker gains through education and experience
- 6. one leader holds complete power
- 7. competition is allowed with little government interference
- 9. the executive and legislative branches are separate bodies elected independently by the citizens (separation of powers); checks and balances where each branch can overrule the other, and the presidents answers to the voters, not the legislature.
- 10. the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community.
- 12. trade barrier that taxes imported goods
- 14. system which falls somewhere in between pure market and pure command economies.
- 18. is a body with the authority to make laws, enforce those laws, and interpret the laws when disagreements arise; oversees the general welfare of its people.
- 19. trade barrier that restricts the amount of a good that can be imported into a country.
- 24. The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a country within a year
- 26. the government controls what is produced and how it is produced; the government own the resources and decides who gets the products.
- 27. restrict trade with foreign countries because they want to sell and produce their own domestic goods.
- 28. People who have the right to participate in government
- 29. The percentage of a country's people who can read and write.
- 30. how much one currency is worth in term of the other
- 31. money from one country must be converted into the currency of another country to pay for goods in that country.
- 32. native to a country, not foreign
- 33. A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.
Down
- 1. government in which citizens elect the legislature and the leader comes from the legislature members, the two branches are fused together
- 3. parliamentary and presidential
- 4. trade barrier that forbids trade with another country
- 8. the concentration of the productive efforts of individuals and firms on a limited number of activities
- 11. Raw materials supplied by nature
- 13. A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business OR inverts something.
- 15. economic decisions are based on what its people want to buy and sell; supply and demand for a good or service determines what to produce and how to produce it; who gets a product is determined by how much a person can afford to pay for it.
- 16. from another country
- 17. every country decides how to distribute its resources to meet the needs of its people; answers three basic questions: What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
- 20. expert at a certain skill/production of an item.
- 21. the people hold supreme power-elect officials to represent them, and all citizens have equal right to participate in government
- 22. buying and selling of items (goods); this occurs because no country has all the resources to efficiently produce everything its people need.
- 23. the type of money a country uses.
- 25. goods that are used in producing other goods, rather than being bought by consumers.