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WorksheetsIntroduction to Economics
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 18mins
It is the branch of economics that focuses on the choices made by individual decision-making units in the economy typically consumers and firms and the impacts those choices have on individual markets.
Macroeconomics
Scarcity
Shortage
Microeconomics
It is the branch of economics that focuses on the impact of choices on the total, or aggregate, level of economic activity. It analyzes the broad aspects of a country’s economy.
Microeconomics
Scarcity
Oikonomia
Macroeconomics
It is the situation in which available resources, or factors of production, are finite, whereas wants are infinite
Shortage
Opportunity Cost
Scarcity
Choice
The decisions which are made by firms, individuals, and or governments regarding which needs and wants to satisfy, and what types of products and services should be produced and bought.
Choices
Opportunity Cost
Scarcity
Shortage
It is your second choice-what you give up when you make a decision.
Choice
Opportunity Cost
Scarcity
Shortage
The amount of a good or service that is available to consumers
Supply
Demand
Saver
Spender
Generally speaking, the lower the price, the greater the quantity demand.
True
False
For the law of demand, as price rises, what happens to quantity demanded?
it goes up
it goes down
it stays the same
it is not effected
For the law of supply, as price rises, what happens to quantity supplied?
it goes up
it goes down
it stays the same
it is not effected
If the price of printers goes down, what happens in the market for ink cartridges?
Supply increases.
Supply decreases.
Demand increases.
Demand decreases
The point where supply and demand are balanced
shifters
equilibrium
surplus
shortage
A drought has made this year's tomato harvest smaller than usual. What will probably happen to the overall supply of tomato sauce?
The supply will probably go up
The supply will probably go down
Weather forecasters predict this summer will be much hotter than usual. What will probably happen to the demand for air conditioners?
The demand will probably go up
The demand will probably go down
