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Economics Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How does the government pay for fire departments and libraries?

a)

Fees

b)

Taxes

c)

Donations

d)

Printing money

2.

Where do people buy and sell goods?

a)

Factory

b)

Market Place

c)

Industrial center

d)

Assembly line

3.

Which of these is an example of a natural resource?

a)

Coal Mine

b)

Nurse

c)

a Manager

d)

a School

4.

A factory is an example of

a)

a capital resource

b)

a human resource

c)

a natural resources

d)

an entrepreneur

5.

Which of these is a human resource?

a)

a teacher

b)

a pipe

c)

a tree

d)

a computer

6.

What is a tax?

a)

Money that people pay to help support the government

b)

Left over money from when you went shopping

c)

A service the government provides to it's people

d)

A good that people provide by working for the government

7.

Police man

Teacher

Garbage man

Firefighter

Mail carrier

soldiers


These jobs are MOSTLY paid for by

a)

Donations

b)

Tax Payers

c)

fake money

d)

non-profit charities

8.

Which job is paid for by tax payers?

a)

Teachers

b)

Doctors

c)

Barbers

d)

Restaurant workers

9.

What things are needed for a market place to work?

a)

goods and services

b)

stores and factories

c)

employees and employers

d)

consumers and producers

10.

What is a consumer?

a)

someone who provides a service

b)

Gets a loan from a bank

c)

works at a job

d)

buys goods and services

11.

On the weekends, Jamie babysits the neighbors kids. The neighbors pay her. Jamie is an example of

a)

a capital resource

b)

a human resource

c)

an entreprenuer

d)

a natural resource

12.

Who is not an entrepreneur?

a)

Haley is hired by a farmer to work at a fruit stand in town

b)

Madison starts selling lemonade on the corner

c)

Will sells his art in an art gallery

d)

Preston invents a new toothbrush and sells them in super markets

13.

Why do countries create currency?

a)

So Ms. B can be rich!

b)

So that citizens can pay taxes to the government

c)

So people can purchase goods and services

d)

So people can work in exchange for goods and services

14.

What do human resources provide to businesses?

a)

capital

b)

labor

c)

land

d)

income

15.

Mark is at the store buying breakfast. He chooses to purchase a chocolate donut instead of buying milk and cereal. What is the opportunity cost of Mark's decision to buy the donut?

a)

4.50

b)

20.99

c)

getting sick from eating too much sugar

d)

having milk and cereal for breakfast

16.

What are capital resources?

a)

People who start their own businesses

b)

People who help to make goods

c)

Things that can be found in nature

d)

Things that are used to produce goods or services

17.

Fresh fruit does not grow well in the winter. How are people in the USA able to get fresh fruit?

a)

People from the U.S. travel to other countries to get fruit

b)

Farmers choose to only grow fruit that grows in cold weather

c)

Stores buy fruit from other countries and then sell it in the United States

d)

People store and freeze fruit that they bought in the summer