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Economic Terms

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is economics?

a)

The study of how to consume goods

b)

The study of who gets what

c)

The study of how to distribute goods

d)

The study of how to produce goods

2.

What does it mean to produce?

a)

To consume

b)

To make

c)

To specialize

d)

To distribute

3.

What does it mean to distribute?

a)

To deliver

b)

To produce

c)

To specialize

d)

To consume

4.

What does it mean to consume?

a)

To specialize

b)

To distribute

c)

To produce

d)

To use

5.

What are goods?

a)

How much consumers want something

b)

How much there is of something

c)

Actions to meet a need

d)

Things

6.

What are services?

a)

Things

b)

How much there is of something

c)

Actions to meet a need

d)

How much consumers want something

7.

What does supply refer to?

a)

Not enough of something

b)

How much consumers want something

c)

How much there is of something

d)

Too much of something

8.

What does demand refer to?

a)

Not enough of something

b)

How much consumers want something

c)

How much there is of something

d)

Too much of something

9.

What does surplus mean?

a)

How much there is of something

b)

Not enough of something

c)

Too much of something

d)

How much consumers want something

10.

What does scarcity mean?

a)

How much consumers want something

b)

How much there is of something

c)

Too much of something

d)

Not enough of something

11.

What is labor?

a)

Work

b)

An idea to start a business

c)

A way that buyers and sellers meet

d)

Things found in nature

12.

What is an entrepreneur?

a)

A person who has an idea and starts a business

b)

Work

c)

An organization that provides a good or service

d)

Things found in nature

13.

What is a market?

a)

Any way that buyers and sellers meet

b)

Work

c)

Things found in nature

d)

An organization that provides a good or service

14.

What are natural resources?

a)

Things made from raw materials

b)

How much there is of something

c)

How much consumers want something

d)

Things found in nature that people value

15.

What are raw materials?

a)

How much there is of something

b)

Things found in nature that people value

c)

How much consumers want something

d)

Things from nature that do not have value--yet

16.

My country has lots of forests. Many of the people here work as lumberjacks. We export lots of timber (wood) to other countries. This is an example of what?

a)

Specialization

b)

Scarcity

c)

Entrepreneur

d)

Market

17.

Raw materials go to a factory and get turned into what?

a)

Labor

b)

Manufactured Goods

c)

Economics

d)

Demand

18.

The total value of everything a person owns.

a)

Wealth

b)

Money

c)

Labor

d)

Supply

19.

How much people are willing to pay for something at a given time in a given place.

a)

Wealth

b)

Money

c)

Value

d)

Goods

20.

A carrier (symbol or representation) of value. People agree to its value and use it to exchange things.

a)

Wealth

b)

Money

c)

Business

d)

Labor