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Economics Study Guide

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose all statements that apply to Natural Resources.

a)

used to meet wants and needs

b)

something from the land

c)

a completed good to be used, not made into another good

d)

a house is an example

e)

trees are an example

2.

A _____________ is something found in nature that people use.

a)

natural resource

b)

mineral

c)

environment

3.

You spend money to buy goods and services.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What is a good?

a)

Work that people do.

b)

Things that taste good.

c)

Items you can see, like a pencil or a car.

5.

What is a service?

a)

Work that people do, like cutting hair or fixing a car.

b)

Things you buy at Walmart.

c)

Doing your homework.

6.

What is a consumer?

a)

Something you can buy.

b)

A person who uses goods and services.

c)

A place to start a business.

7.

Producers make their goods close to the resources they ned to save money.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Which of these are NATURAL resources?

a)

trees

b)

toys

c)

water

d)

soil

e)

cars

9.

Which of these are HUMAN resources?

a)

Singing

b)

Cooking

c)

Painting

d)

Animals

10.

Which of these are CAPITAL resources?

a)

Forests

b)

bottles to store milk

c)

scissors to trim hair

11.

What type of resource is things from nature used to produce goods and services?

a)

Human

b)

Natural

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurs

12.

What type of resource is the work people do and the skills they use to produce goods and services?

a)

Human

b)

Natural

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

13.

What type of resource is human-made goods used to produce goods and services?

a)

Human

b)

Natural

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

14.

What type of resource is people who take a risk to provide goods and services?

a)

Human

b)

Natural

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

15.

What kind of resource include these examples?

(sunlight, water, minerals, plants, soil, and animals)

a)

Human

b)

Natural

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

16.

What kind of resource includes these examples?

(construction workers, carpenters, servers, teachers, and firefighters)

a)

Natural

b)

Human

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

17.

What kind of resource includes these examples?

(tractors, drills, computers, machines, hammers, and nails)

a)

Natural

b)

Human

c)

Capital

d)

Entrepreneurship

18.

Entrepreneurs are people who start a business-they use natural, human, and capital resources to do so.

a)

Neither

b)

False

c)

True

d)

False

19.

What are things used to make goods and services?

a)

Productive resource

b)

Voluntary exchange

c)

Interdependence

d)

Trade

20.

Definition: The quantity of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to buy.

a)

demand

b)

goods

c)

trade

d)

services

21.

Definition: Exchanging one thing for another; an example is giving money to someone for food

a)

demand

b)

trade

c)

price

d)

voluntary exchange

22.

Definition: The labor, both physically and mental, that is used in the production of goods.

a)

natural (land) resources

b)

entreprenuership

c)

demand

d)

human (labor) resources

23.

Definition: The labor, both physically and mental, that is used in the production of goods.

a)

natural (land) resources

b)

entreprenuership

c)

demand

d)

human (labor) resources

24.

Definition: The things used to produce goods and services, such as factories, tools, transportation services, and storage facilities. Does not include money.

a)

voluntary exchange

b)

entreprenuership

c)

market economy

d)

capital resources

25.

Definition: exchanging one thing for another ( because you want to), which is beneficial to both parties.

a)

voluntary exchange

b)

entreprenuership

c)

capital resources

d)

trade

26.

Definition: items that satisfy people's needs and wants (food , crayon, video games ...)

a)

demand

b)

goods

c)

taxes

d)

trade

27.

Definition: The ability to take risks to start a new company, invent a new product, or process to make a product.

a)

interdependence

b)

voluntary exchange

c)

capital resources

d)

entrepreneurship

28.

Definition: Money that citizens pay through the things that they buy or use, and through the income they make at their jobs; this money is used to pay for government services.

a)

price

b)

trade

c)

taxes

d)

goods

29.

Definition: People are dependent on others for some of their needs; to get these needs people rely on others to produce them. The producers need people to buy their goods.

a)

interdependence

b)

capital resources

c)

market economy

d)

entrepreneurship

30.

Definition: The amount of goods available.

a)

supply

b)

trade

c)

demand

d)

goods

31.

How many types of productive resources are there?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

10

32.

Why do people trade?

a)

To be popular

b)

To make friends

c)

To get things they need and want but do not have

d)

To get things they already have

33.

To focus and concentrate on the production of one item

a)

Trade

b)

Specialization

c)

Interdependence

d)

Produce

34.

When citizens focused on one task, productivity increased.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

Good or Service???


You take an airplane when you go on a trip.

a)

Good

b)

Service

36.

Good or Service???


You buy your mother a flower from a flower shop for Mother's Day.

a)

Good

b)

Service

37.

What does interdependence mean?

a)

To go between places

b)

To bring things to your state

c)

To send things out of your state

d)

To depend on other places to trade things you cannot produce

38.

What is an example of interdependence?

a)

Trading Georgia peaches for Florida Oranges

b)

Sending cars to other states from Georgia

c)

Bringing oranges in

d)

Sending peaches out

39.

What do people use for most trades today?

a)

bread

b)

gold coins

c)

money

d)

silver

40.

Something you need to stay alive like food and water

a)

good

b)

service

c)

want

d)

need

41.

Something someone does for others like mowing grass, and teaching students.

a)

Good

b)

service

c)

need

d)

want

42.

Something you would like to have

a)

want

b)

need

c)

good

d)

service

43.

Someone who uses goods and services like a customer in a grocery store.

a)

consumer

b)

producer

c)

supply

d)

demand

44.

Someone who provides a good or service like a farmer or doctor

a)

consumer

b)

producer

c)

demand

d)

supply

45.

How much of something people want to buy

a)

Supply

b)

surplus

c)

demand

d)

shortage

46.

If the demand of a product goes up, the price will go (a)   .

47.

If the demand of a product goes down the price will go (a)   .

48.

How much something costs

a)

opportunity cost

b)

price

c)

demand

d)

supply

49.

What you give up to get something else.

a)

Price

b)

competition

c)

opportunity cost

d)

specialization

50.

A farmer grows food that the doctor eats; the doctor takes care of the farmer if he is sick. This is an example of___.

a)

interdependence

b)

specialization

c)

opportunity cost

d)

price