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Overview of the Economy

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Scarcity?

a)

The limited supply of a resource

b)

its a measurement of a countries economy

c)

a government who believes in religion

2.

A characteristic of a Traditional Economy is-

a)

What people make us based of tradition and beliefs

b)

what people make is based of what the government tells them

c)

based of whatever the individual wants to make

d)

none of the above

3.

What is Subsistence Farming?

a)

food that is produced commercially for resell

b)

the use of technology to produce a lot of food

c)

people producing just enough food to feed their families

4.
Which is not an economic system?
a)
mixed
b)
free market
c)
communism
d)
command
5.
Kings and Queens are part of which type of government?
a)
monarchy
b)
dictatorship
c)
democracy
d)
theocracy
6.
A system found in agricultural societies where people live the same way their parents and grandparents did; people produce what they need to survive.
a)
Market Economy
b)
Command Economy
c)
Traditional Economy 
d)
Taylor Swift World 
7.
The government controls what is produced and how it is produced; the government own the resources and decides who gets the products.
a)
Control Economy
b)
Command Economy 
c)
Market Economy 
d)
Mixed Economy 
8.
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.
a)
Market Economy
b)
Mixed Economy
c)
Command Economy
d)
Traditional Economy 
9.
1. What to produce? 
2. How to produce?
3. For whom to produce?
a)
Basic Economic Questions
b)
Spongebob's Life Thoughts
c)
BMS Motto
d)
Basic Government Questions 
10.

What is Cottage Industry?

a)

Making enough food for your family only

b)

The use of technology to produce a lot of food

c)

Producing food to resell

d)

Both Green and Yellow

11.
Human Development index is best described as;
a)
the development of a country and how much money it has
b)
index that measures a country’s well being and rank in order of the most developed to least developed country  based on 3 key criteria
c)
how long people are living and how happy they are
12.

high birth rate, high infant mortality & a low literacy rate is associated with a

a)

more developed or highly developed country

b)

less developed country

13.

What does the acronym HDI stand for?

a)

Human Development Index

b)

Huge Donut Industry

c)

High Development Industry

d)

Highly Dubious Imagination

14.

Which three indicators are used to measure the HDI?

a)

Life expectancy, literacy rate, number of trees per 1000 people

b)

Life expectancy, mortality rates and GDP

15.

What is life expectancy?

a)

How long people are expected to live

b)

What people expect out of life

c)

Whether or not you will be born

d)

Amount of money a country has

16.

What is the literacy rate?

a)

The percentage of adults who have written a book

b)

The percentage of adults who can read and write

c)

The percentage of adults who have electricity per 1000

d)

The percentage of children that can read by age 5

17.

The United States is classified as a

a)

newly industrialized country

b)

more developed country

c)

less developed country

18.
Choose the correct examples of a tertiary activity.
a)
truck driver, doctor, store clerk, restaurant
b)
manufacturing and construction
c)
mining, agriculture, fishing
d)
research and data processing
19.
Choose the correct examples of a quaternary activity.
a)
truck driver, doctor, store clerk, restaurant
b)
manufacturing and construction
c)
mining, agriculture, fishing
d)
research and data processing
20.
Choose the correct examples of a primary activity.
a)
truck driver, doctor, store clerk, restaurant
b)
manufacturing and construction
c)
mining, agriculture, fishing
d)
research and data processing
21.
Which type of economic activity uses raw materials to produce something new?
a)
Primary
b)
Secondary
c)
Tertiary
d)
Quaternary
22.
Which type of economic activity processes and distributes information?
a)
Primary
b)
Secondary
c)
Tertiary
d)
Quaternary