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Chapter 1 Economics

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following are factors of production?

a)

economics & business decisions

b)

technology & productivity

c)

scarcity & shortage

d)

capital & land

2.

The principle that limited amounts of goods and services are available to meet unlimited wants.

a)

scarcity

b)

shortage

c)

factors of production

d)

incentives

3.

The two types of capital

a)

Physical & Land

b)

Labor & Land

c)

Human & Labor

d)

Physical & Human

4.

Opportunity cost

a)

the next best alternative

b)

money you owe for your decision

c)

what you gain for your decision

d)

lost money

5.

An economy that is producing the maximum amounts of goods & services is called

a)

underutilized

b)

efficient

c)

growing

d)

trading off

6.

A factory is an example of which factor of production?

a)

Land

b)

Labor

c)

Physical Capital

d)

Human Capital

7.

Another term for a business

a)

Firm

b)

Household

c)

Labor

d)

Land

8.

Entrepreneurs

a)

take risks

b)

create ideas

c)

start businesses

d)

all of the above

9.

Why would you want to produce a production possibilities curve?

a)

to show different ways a countries resources can be used

b)

show the benefits of using 1 type of technology over another

c)

to improve the way a product is manufactured

d)

to reduce the scarcity of resources and labor

10.

Which of the following is an example of a service?

a)

hair spray

b)

hair cut

c)

hair brush

d)

hair ball

11.

Scarcity is always constant

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Mark Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of which of the following:

a)

Instagram

b)

Twitter

c)

Snapchat

d)

Facebook

13.

Making choices is a large element of economics.

a)

True

b)

False

14.
Which of the following is a service?
a)
a restaurant meal
b)
a guitar lesson
c)
dry-cleaning fluid
d)
a concert t-shirt
15.
Scarcity arises because all societies have
a)
limited productive resources to satisfy unlimited wants
b)
unlimited productive resources to satisfy limited wants
c)
limited needs and unlimited wants
d)
unlimited needs and limited wants
16.

_______ include all human creations used to produce goods and services.

a)

capital goods

b)

labor

c)

marginal products

d)

revenue

17.

What is a tradeoff?

a)

When one thing has to be given up in order to have another

b)

satisfaction

c)

money

d)

work done by humans

18.

The use of resources in such a way as to maximize the output of goods & services

a)

efficiency

b)

underutilization

c)

law of increasing costs

d)

trade-offs

19.

The use of fewer resources than an economy is capable of using

a)

efficiency

b)

underutilization

c)

law of increasing costs

d)

trade-off

20.

a line on a production possibilities curve that shows the maximum possible output an economy can produce

a)

curve

b)

frontier

c)

axis

d)

labor

21.

The idea that some necessities, such as water, have a very low monetary value while some non-necessities, such as diamonds, have a very high value is known as

a)

paradox of value

b)

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

c)

durable good

d)

production possibilities curve

22.

A way of organizing work so that each worker or work group completes a separate part of the overall task is known as

a)

human capital

b)

physical capital

c)

division of labor

d)

product markets

23.

GDP stands for

a)

Grand Deposit Pricing

b)

Grand Decision Practicing

c)

Gross Domestic Pricing

d)

Gross Domestic Product

24.

The social science dealing with how people satisfy seemingly unlimited and competing needs and wants with the careful use of scarce resources.

a)

Sociology

b)

Financial Literacy

c)

Economics

d)

Government