Business Economics | Topic 1, Focus Area 1, Lesson 1 Quiz

Which of the following best defines ECONOMICS

• the study of how individuals behave when it comes to satisfying their unlimited wants and needs with limited resources

• the study of how individuals behave when it comes to satisfying their limited wants and needs with unlimited resources

• the study of how individuals behave when it comes to satisfying their limited wants and needs with limited resources

• the study of how individuals behave when it comes to satisfying their unlimited wants and needs with unlimited resources

Match the following key terms:

• Economics

• Something you cannot see, feel, or touch that requires scarce resources to produce and satisfies human wants

• Productive Resources

• The inputs used to produce the goods and services that people want

• Good

• not enough productive resources to satisfy people's unlimited wants

• Scarcity

• An item you can see, feel, and touch that requires scarce resources to produce and satisfies human wants

• Service

• the study of how people use their scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants

Which of the following best describes The Economic Problem

• Although your wants, or desires, are virtually unlimited, the productive resources available to help satisfy these wants are scarce.

• Governments are always in debt and making bad financial decisions.

• Not enough people are educated in how the economy works.

• We have too many resources and not sure how to use them, so we just waste them.

Scarcity forces us to do what?

• Make choices

• Feel bad about what we buy

• To be afraid of everything

• To have everything we've ever wanted

Sort the following descriptions and examples to the correct Productive Resource

Groups:

(a) Human Resources

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(b) Natural Resources

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(c) Capital Goods

• Oil reserves

• Brain Surgeon

• Machines

• Construction Worker

• Trucks

• Tools

• "Gifts of nature"

• Minerals

• Labor

• Land

• Car Salesman

• Include all human creation used to produce goods and services.

• Cab Driver

• animals

• Factories

• bodies of water

• Money

• Human efforts, both physical and mental, used to produce goods and services.

• Forest

• Entrepreneurs