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Year 10 Economics

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a consumer?

a)

a person who takes things

b)

a person who purchases goods and services for personal use

c)

a person who takes good away

d)

the economic factors affecting the price, demand, and availability of a commodity

2.

What is a producer?

a)

a person who gives goods away

b)

things people would like to have

c)

the exchanged of goods and services without the use of money

d)

a person, company, or country that makes grows, or supplies goods for sale

3.

Basic things humans need to survive

a)

want

b)

import

c)

need

4.

Extras that make life more enjoyable

a)

need

b)

want

c)

savings

5.

What is Gross Domestic Product?

a)

Goods, services, and intermediate products bought by people in other countries.

b)

the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year

c)

The amount of output the average worker can produce in an hour.

6.
What term refers to a good that leaves a country?
a)
Export
b)
Import
c)
Trade
d)
Distribution
7.
What term refers to a good that comes into a country?
a)
Trade
b)
Migration
c)
Export
d)
Import
8.

Which choice best describes the economic problem of scarcity in the world?

a)

People have limited wants there is an unlimited amount of resources.

b)

People have unlimited wants but there is a limited amount of resources

c)

People have no wants so resources don't matter

9.

In the circular flow diagram firms pay wages for which factor of production?

a)

Land

b)

Labor

c)

Entrepreneurship

d)

Raw materials

10.

Where do factors of production (land, labor, etc) come from in the circular flow model?

a)

Factor Market

b)

Producers

c)

The Government

d)

Households

11.

Government use taxes to produce

a)

Leaders for the government

b)

Weapons for the military

c)

Public Goods and Services

d)

Television Commercials

12.

Which of the following describes a machine used to produce a product?

a)

Land

b)

Labor

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

13.

Which of the following is a worker?

a)

Land

b)

Labor

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

14.

What do households provide to the resource market?

a)

land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship

b)

money

c)

people

d)

income

15.
What do businesses provide for consumers according to the circular flow model?
a)
goods and services
b)
only goods
c)
only services
d)
taxes
16.

What do households sell?

a)

Products

b)

Goods & Services

c)

Factors of Production

d)

Expenditures

17.
What is the fundamental problem of every society?
a)
labor costs
b)
scarcity
c)
economic interdependence
d)
market fluctuation
18.
What is the definition of the economic term Opportunity Cost?
a)
the value of the next best alternative that is given up due to the choice you made 
b)
The price you pay to purchase something 
c)
The benefit you gain by making a decision 
d)
The amount of debt you take on by making a decision 
19.

If a point lies on the curve this means the company/country/individual is being efficient. If a point lies inside the curve, what does that tell?

a)

They are being over efficient

b)

They are being inefficient

c)

It is not impossible with the given resources

d)

They are still efficient, just at another point

20.
What does point Y represent on the PPC?
a)
Efficiency
b)
Unattainable / impossible
c)
Inefficency
d)
Nothing
21.

How does a production possibility curve show that scarcity exists?

a)

It shows that a rise in demand for one of the products increases its price.

b)

It shows that as more resources are used to produce a product, its price rises.

c)

It shows that at any point outside the production possibility curve an economy is wasting

resources.

d)

It shows that there is a limit to the quantity of products that can be produced with existing resources and technology.

22.

The diagram shows two production possibility curves for an economy.

What could have caused the change in the economy’s production possibility curve from XX

to YY?

a)

a decrease in the price level

b)

a large number of industrial disputes

c)

a major earthquake

d)

an increase in unemployment

23.
The opportunity cost of increasing production from 7 to 9 trucks is
a)
Scarcity
b)
2 boats
c)
2 trucks
d)
3 boats
24.
The production possibilities curve is an illustration of what?
a)
Opportunity costs and trade-offs
b)
Only opportunity costs
c)
Only trade-offs
d)
none of the above
25.

What determines the prices of goods and services?

a)

Supply

b)

Demand

c)

Supply and demand

d)

Goods

26.

What exists when quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded?

a)

Surplus

b)

Shortage

c)

Overflow

d)

Mass outrage

27.

A market is said to be in equilibrium when

a)

when demand is higher than the supply

b)

when demand is lower than the supply

c)

when the demand and supply quantities are equal

d)

when the supply is doubled the demand

28.

What happens to price when the market has a surplus

a)

price drops

b)

price stays the same

c)

price increases

d)

price triples

29.

Defined as: the goods and services produced in one country and purchased by residents of another country

a)

import

b)

export

c)

embargo

d)

economy

30.

Defined as: to bring in a product or service from another country.

a)

imports

b)

goods

c)

services

d)

exports

31.
What does this curve represent?
a)
supply
b)
equilibrium
c)
demand
d)
surplus
32.
The diagram represents a
a)
increase in demand
b)
decrease in demand
c)
change in quantity demand
d)
none of the above
33.
Goods that are bought and used together are 
a)
complementary goods
b)
substitute goods
c)
income goods
d)
unrelated goods
34.

When the demand curve shifts to the left, this suggests demand has

a)

increased

b)

decreased

c)

Quantity demanded has increased

d)

Quantity demanded has decreased

35.

When the demand curve has shifted to the right, this suggests demand has

a)

increased

b)

decreased

c)

quantity demanded has increased

d)

quantity demanded has increased

36.

Which statement expresses a central idea of how the laws of supply and demand work?

a)

The government sets the prices for goods and services.

b)

Prices are determined by the interaction of producers and consumers.

c)

Consumers alone determine the prices for goods and services.

d)

Technology dictates the prices charged for goods and services.

37.

Which factor might cause an increase in the supply of a product?

a)

a decrease in productivity

b)

fewer sellers in the marketplace

c)

the introduction of new technology

d)

an increase in the cost of raw materials

38.

The law of supply states...

a)

the supply of a product is not affected by its price.

b)

when the supply of a product decreases, the price of the product falls.

c)

when the supply of a product increases, the price of the product rises.

d)

the quantity supplied of a product will increase when the price of that product increases.

39.

 Income

 Consumer Expectations

 Population

 Consumer Tastes

 Complements and Substitutes


These would change what part of the market?

a)

supply

b)

demand

c)

Quantity supplied

d)

Quantity demanded

40.

This demand and supply graph shows:

a)

An increase in Demand and an expansion in Supply

b)

A decrease in Demand and a contraction in Supply

c)

An increase in Supply and an expansion in Demand

d)

A decrease in Supply and a contraction in Demand

41.

This demand and supply graph shows:

a)

An increase in Demand and an expansion in Supply

b)

A decrease in Demand and a contraction in Supply

c)

An increase in Supply and an expansion in Demand

d)

A decrease in Supply and a contraction in Demand

42.

This demand and supply graph shows:

a)

An increase in Demand and an expansion in Supply

b)

A decrease in Demand and a contraction in Supply

c)

An increase in Supply and an expansion in Demand

d)

A decrease in Supply and a contraction in Demand

43.

This demand and supply graph shows:

a)

An increase in Demand and an expansion in Supply

b)

A decrease in Demand and a contraction in Supply

c)

An increase in Supply and an expansion in Demand

d)

A decrease in Supply and a contraction in Demand

44.

The aggregate demand equation is:

a)

Y=C+I+G+X

b)

Y=C+I+G+(X+M)

c)

Y=C+I+G+(X-M)

d)

C+S+T+M=C+I+G+X