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WorksheetsSW Asia Economic Systems
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 4hrs 0mins
What does the acronym OPEC stand for?
Oil Producing and Exporting Countries
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Oil and Petroleum Exporting Countries
Oil Producing and Exporting Consortium
Type of economy that depends on agriculture and bartering, where decisions are based on customs, beliefs or habits.
Mixed Economy
Market Economy
Traditional Economy
Command Economy
An economic system that has characteristics of both command and market economies.
Autocratic Economy
Command Economy
Traditional Economy
Mixed Economy
Economy where decisions are made at an individual, rather than a government, level. (Individuals and corporations own most businesses and farms)
Traditional Economy
Market Economy
Command Economy
Autocratic Economy
An economy where production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
Market Economy
Free Economy
Traditional Economy
Command Economy
_____________________ is when a country focuses on producing goods and services that they can do best and trades for what they are unable to produce.
Specialization
Production
Trade Barrier
Entrepreneurship
A tax paid on imported goods.
Quota
Tariff
Embargo
Entrepreneurship
A government order stopping trade with another country.
Tariff
Embargo
Quota
Oligarchy
A specific limit placed on the number of imports that may enter a country.
Embargo
Tariff
Quota
Oligarchy
The percentage of people in a country who are 15 years and older and are able to read and write.
Literacy Rate
Educational Rate
Reading Quotient
Readability Scale
Total value of final goods and services produced within a country in one year.
Profit and Loss
Tariff
Gross Domestic Product
Quota
The knowledge, skills, and experience of workers in a business, workforce, people who produce the goods and services.
Capital Gains
Human Capital
Capital Goods
Literacy Rate
Where on the economic continuum is Saudi Arabia found?
Mixed, but more towards a free market economy
Mixed economy (50% command/50% market)
Mixed, but mostly a command economy
Pure command economy
Man made tools tools and machinery that are used by a business to produce goods and services.
Capital Gains
Capital Goods
Human Capital
Non-human capital
Which Middle Eastern economy has the most free (from government control) mixed economy?
Israel
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
None
Saudi Arabia specializes in the production of:
Livestock
Olives and grapes
Oil and olives
Oil and natural gas
Why has Israel specialized in the area of technology?
It has a poorly educated population.
It has few natural resources and little farmland.
The money earned is used to support the military.
The country has little in the way of fishing.
The economies of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey can best be described as:
Traditional
Command
Market
Mixed
Which of the following would reflect Israel's mixed economy?
The country's distribution of resources is based on inheritance.
Prices and wages are solely regulated by the country's government.
Economic decisions are based on customs and beliefs of ancestors.
A combination of privately-owned businesses and government regulations.
Which characteristic BEST describes Turkey's economy?
Pure market
Command-leaning
Traditional
Market-leaning
Which country in Southwest Asia has a system that allows for the most individual economic freedom in the region?
Israel
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
None
Nations with more economic freedom tend to correlate to what type of government?
Autocratic
Oligarchic
Democratic
Theocracy
Governments with low citizen freedom tend to correlate to economies with low economic freedom.
True
False
The relationship between the literacy rate and standard of living in Southwest Asia is ____________.
Literacy rate has no effect on the standard of living.
Low literacy rate creates a higher standard of living.
The higher the literacy rate, the higher the standard of living.
The standard of living is independent of literacy rate.
Tariffs and quotas are alike because they both _________.
restrict or limit trade between countries.
completely stop trade between countries.
increase trade between countries.
make trading a lot easier between countries.
Which of the following is an economic system in which the government and people are used to decide how to use scarce resources?
Market economy
Command economy
Traditional economy
Mixed economy
Which of the following is an economic system in which economic decisions are made according to tradition & culture?
Market economy
Command economy
Traditional economy
Mixed economy
What is an economic system where only the government makes the economic decisions?
traditional economy
free enterprise
mixed economy
command economy
What type of economy do most countries in the world have?
Market economy
Command economy
Traditional economy
Mixed economy
The country of North Korea has a dictator that makes all of the economic decisions. What type of economy is this?
Traditional
Market
Command
Centrally Planned
The government has little to no role in the production of goods in this type of economy.
Traditional
Mixed
Command
Market
I am a farmer in a rural village, and have always traded for my goods. I have a _____ economy.
Traditional
Command
Market
Mixed
The government gets to decide who gets what
Traditional
Command
Mixed
Market
Based on traditions
Command
Traditional
Market
Mixed
The goods produced will be the same, generation after generation
Mixed
Market
Command
Traditional
Businesses have freedom to produce whatever they think consumers will buy
Market
Command
Mixed
Traditional
Business FREEDOM
Command
Market
MIxed
Traditional
A command economy is when the government is in control.
True
False
Bartering can be seen in which type of economy?
Command
Market
Mixed
Traditional
Government planning groups make the basic economic decisions such as which goods and service to produce, prices and wage rates.
Command
Traditional
Market
Mixed
,In my country, the government tells me where to work.
Traditional
Command
Market
Mixed
In a command economy, who holds power over the economy?
The people
The government
Beyonce
The traditions of your ancesetors
An economic system in which people usually produce just what they need to survive.
Traditional
Command
Market
Mixed
