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Economics - Chapter 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Our inability to satisfy all our wants is called ___________.

a)

profit

b)

scarcity

c)

surplus

d)

wages

2.

Because we face scarcity, we must make _____________.

a)

studies

b)

money

c)

profit

d)

choices

3.

A(n) __________________ is a reward that encourages an action or a penalty that discourages an action.

a)

fine

b)

FOPs

c)

incentive

d)

human capital

4.

The work time and work effort that people devote to producing goods and services is __________.

a)

labor

b)

land

c)

capital

d)

rent

5.

The tools, instruments, machines, buildings, and other constructions that businesses use to produce goods and services are _____________.

a)

land

b)

capital

c)

entrepreneurship

d)

labor

6.

The human resource that organizes land, labor, and capital is _________________.

a)

land

b)

labor

c)

capital

d)

entrepreneurship

7.

Land earns ___________.

a)

interest

b)

rent

c)

wages

d)

profit

8.

Labor earns ___________.

a)

wages

b)

profit

c)

interest

d)

capital

9.

Capital earns _____________.

a)

interest

b)

wages

c)

rent

d)

salaries

10.

Entrepreneurship earns ___________.

a)

interest

b)

profit

c)

wages

d)

rent

11.

You make choices that are in your ___________—choices that you think are best for you.

a)

social-interest

b)

studies

c)

efficiency

d)

self-interest

12.

Choices that are best for society as a whole are said to be in the __________

a)

social-interest

b)

supply

c)

demand

d)

self-interest

13.

Social interest has two dimensions: ______________ and __________.

a)

stability; self-controlling

b)

Efficiency; equity

c)

risk; equity

d)

equity; decision-making

14.

_________ is achieved when the available resources are used to produce goods and services at the lowest possible price and in quantities that give the greatest possible benefit.

a)

equity

b)

information revolution

c)

multinational firms

d)

efficiency

15.

____________ is fairness, but economists have a variety of views about what is fair.

a)

efficiency

b)

profit

c)

risk

d)

equity

16.

____________ means the expansion of international trade, borrowing and lending, and investment.

a)

information revolution

b)

trade-off

c)

globalization

d)

consumers

17.

Globalization is in the self-interest of ____________ who buy low-cost imported goods and services.

a)

countries

b)

consumers

c)

business owners

d)

economists

18.

A choice is a ____________.

a)

switch off

b)

turn off

c)

trade off

d)

____ off

19.

__________ is what you gain from something.

a)

cost

b)

benefit

c)

fee

d)

preference

20.

The___________ __________ of something is the highest-valued alternative that must be given up to get it.

a)

opportunity cost

b)

marginal benefit

c)

Incremental changes

d)

Marginal cost