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Chapter 1 BASIC OF ECONOMICS

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following shows that when people use something, it doesn't affect how much others can use it?

a)

Equipment

b)

Oil

c)

Information

d)

Worker

2.

A person who uses a new idea to bring out a product or service to the marketplace is known as:

a)

Entrepreneur

b)

A labor

c)

A manager

d)

A delivery man

3.

A person who purchases a good or service

a)

consumer

b)

supply

c)

good

d)

demand

4.

Extras that make life more enjoyable

a)

want

b)

need

c)

scarcity

d)

savings

5.

How much of a good or service consumers want

a)

demand

b)

spending

c)

scarcity

d)

opportunity cost

6.

The highest-valued alternative that must be given up when you make a choice.

a)

Scarcity

b)

Opportunity cost

c)

Factors of Production

d)

Innovation

7.

There are 4 _______________. They are land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship.

a)

Market Economy

b)

Profit

c)

Economics

d)

Factors of Production

8.

Which of the following is an example of an investment in human capital?

a)

A company builds a new factory

b)

A city puts in a new highway

c)

A person goes to college

d)

A country builds new schools

9.

Man-made resources used in the production process i.e. machines in a factory.

a)

Labor

b)

Capital

c)

Land

d)

tax

10.

The situation in which unlimited wants exceed the limited resources available to fulfill those wants.

a)

Market

b)

Scarcity

c)

Free Goods

d)

Economic Goods

11.

The payments for land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial ability respectively are:

a)

Salary, rent, profit, interest

b)

Rent, wages, interest, and profit

c)

Rent, profit, wages, and interest

d)

Wages, rent, profit and interest

12.

A factory building is considered to be part of which of the following factors of production?

a)

Labor

b)

Entrepreneurship

c)

Land

d)

Capital

13.

Economics is the study of...….

a)

 how society decides what, how, and for whom to produce

b)

production technology

c)

consumption decisions

d)

The opportunity cost of a good is

14.

The opportunity cost of a good is.......

a)

the price of the good

b)

the total cost of production

c)

the demand for the good

d)

the quantity of other goods sacrificed to get another unit of that good

15.

The payment made by an employer to an employee is called _____.

a)

Wage

b)

Profit

c)

Interest

d)

Rent

16.

Which of the following is not a resource as the term is defined by economics?

a)

a person

b)

oil

c)

a building

d)

money

17.

Which term is used to describe the study of how people make decisions in a world where resources are limited?

a)

scarcity

b)

Economics

c)

decision-making

d)

cost-benefit analysis

18.

The machines and robots at the E.Tech Smart building are an example of ________.

a)

Capital

b)

Economic technology

c)

Land

d)

Labor

19.

When we know the quantity of a product that buyers wish to purchase at each possible price, we know

a)

the demand

b)

the discount price

c)

the supply

d)

the cost of production

20.

Goods naturally found on the earth

a)

Services

b)

Machinery

c)

Man-made resources

d)

Natural resources