Government Alive! Ch. 2 - Comparing Forms of Government

Government Alive!

Ch. 2 - Comparing Forms of Government

by TOM LEE

Multiple Choice

A system of govnernment in which citizens exercise supreme power, acting either directly on their own or through elected representatives. 

• democracy

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• Theocracy

Multiple Choice

A legislative assembly in which elected representatives debate and vote on proposed laws. Assembled of a collection of parties and directed by the party or parties of the majority. One of the most common forms of government today. Canada, England and Greece all have parliamentary governments.

• parliament

• democracy

• theocracy

• dictatorship

Multiple Choice

an economic system that relies mainly on the central government to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them

• command economy

• market economy

• traditional economy

• mixed economy

Multiple Choice

system of government in which a single ruler exercises supreme power based on heredity or divine right

• monarchy

• democracy

• dictatorship

• command economy

Multiple Choice

traditional economy

an economic system in which decisions about what to produce and how are made on the basis of customs, beliefs, and traditions

• traditional economy

• market economy

• command economy

• mixed economy

Multiple Choice

a system of government in which a single person or group exercises supreme power by controlling the military and police

• dictatorship

• democracy

• parliament

• republic

Multiple Choice

an economic system that relies mainly on markets to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them

• market economy

• command economy

• traditional economy

• mixed economy

Multiple Choice

A political system in which voters elect lawmakers to represent them in the nation's parliament; the elected lawmakers choose a prime minister to head the executive branch.

• Parliamentary Democracy

• Presidential Democracy

• Democracy

• Representative Democracy