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WorksheetsEconomics Exam
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is the term for: Something people must have to survive, like air, food, and shelter?
Desire
Want
Need
Luxury
What is the term for: Something people would like to have but are not needed to survive?
Want
Need
Necessity
Obligation
What is the term for: Limited amounts of resources to meet unlimited desires?
Scarcity
Abundance
Sufficiency
Plenitude
What is the term for: Objects like cars and clothes?
Ideas
Services
Goods
Resources
What is the term for: Actions people do for others?
Services
Goods
Machines
Tools
What is the term for: Occurs when a good or service is unavailable?
Substitute
Surplus
Equilibrium
Shortage
What is the term for: Resources used to make goods and services?
Factors of production
Consumer goods
Public services
Natural monopolies
What is the term for: Includes natural resources like coal, water, and forests?
Labor
Land
Capital
Entrepreneurship
What is the term for: Work in which people receive pay?
Labor
Hobby
Volunteerism
Leisure
What is the term for: Human made resource used to produce goods and services?
Land
Labor
Capital
Entrepreneurship
What is the term for: Objects made by people, like buildings and tools?
Physical capital
Natural resources
Human capital
Financial capital
What is the term for: Refers to the knowledge and skills people gain from study and experience?
Human capital
Physical capital
Natural resources
Financial capital
What is the term for: People who put together land, labor, and capital to create businesses?
Investors
Employees
Entrepreneurs
Managers
What is the term for: Chooses one alternative and gives up another?
Opportunity cost
Marginal benefit
Sunk cost
Fixed cost
What is the term for: Using fewer resources than it is capable of doing?
Underutilization
Overproduction
Scarcity
Efficiency
What is the term for: An economic system that is rooted in a culture, location, customs, tradition, and needs rather than being centered around making a profit?
Command economy
Market economy
Traditional economy
Mixed economy
An economy in which most goods and services are produced and distributed through free markets is called a ________.
market economy
command economy
traditional economy
mixed economy
An economic system where the government, rather than the market, makes key decisions about production and distribution of goods and services is called a ________.
centrally planned economy
market economy
mixed economy
traditional economy
An arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to exchange goods and services is called ________.
contracts
markets
loans
investments
A place where businesses acquire the resources they need to produce goods and services, and where households sell or provide those resources, is called a ________.
factor market
product market
retail market
stock market
The marketplace where finished goods or services are sold to consumers and businesses is called a ________.
product market
factor market
labor market
resource market
An economic system in which industries are owned by workers rather than by private businesses is called ________.
capitalism
socialism
feudalism
mercantilism
A political and economic ideology advocating for a classless society where the means of production are owned communally, with private property nonexistent, is called ________.
communism
capitalism
monarchy
fascism
The study of behavior and decision making of entire economies is called ________.
macroeconomics
microeconomics
sociology
psychology
The study of economic behavior of individuals, families, and businesses is called ________.
psychology
macroeconomics
sociology
microeconomics
The total value of all final goods and services produced in a year is called ________.
gross domestic product (GDP)
net national product (NNP)
personal income (PI)
consumer price index (CPI)
A shared good or service for which it would be inefficient or impractical to make consumers pay individually is called a ________.
public good
private good
club good
common resource
The part of the economy which involves the government is called the ________.
informal sector
private sector
public sector
household sector
The part of the economy that involves transactions of individuals and businesses is called the ________.
private sector
public sector
government sector
nonprofit sector
The minimum level of income that is needed to support a household is called the _________.
Poverty threshold
Disposable income
Gross domestic product
Living wage
Tax money the government collects and redistributes to people who are in need is called _________.
Tariff
Subsidy
Revenue
Welfare
_________ are direct payments of money.
Cash transfers
Tax credits
Subsidies
Vouchers
The law that states a good's price has an important effect on the amount of that good people will buy is called the _________.
Law of Supply
Law of Demand
Law of Diminishing Returns
Law of Equilibrium
The _________ states that as the price of a good rises, people are more likely to substitute alternative goods.
Substitution Effect
Income Effect
Law of Diminishing Returns
Price Elasticity
The _________ illustrates the quantities demanded at each price by consumers in the market.
Demand curve
Supply curve
Production possibility frontier
Budget line
_________ are two goods that are bought and used together (ex: skis and ski boots).
Substitutes
Complements
Inferior goods
Normal goods
_________ are goods used in place of another (snowboards for skis).
Substitutes
Complements
Inferior goods
Normal goods
_________ is used to describe the way people respond to price changes.
Elasticity of demand
Law of supply
Marginal utility
Opportunity cost
The amount of money the company receives by selling its goods is called _________.
Total revenue
Net profit
Gross margin
Operating cost
Fill in the blank: The law that states the higher the price the larger the quantity produced is called the _________
Law of Demand
Law of Supply
Law of Economics
Law of Household
The _________ illustrates the quantity supplied by all producers in a market at different prices.
Market supply curve
Demand schedule
Production possibilities curve
Consumer surplus curve
_________ is a concept that predicts how suppliers react to price changes.
Elasticity of supply
Law of demand
Marginal utility
Consumer surplus
A cost that does not change is called a _________.
Sunk cost
Variable cost
Marginal cost
Fixed cost
A cost that rises or falls depending on the quantity produced is called a _________.
Variable cost
Fixed cost
Sunk cost
Marginal cost
When fixed and variable costs are added together, the result is called _________.
Total cost
Marginal cost
Average cost
Operating cost
________ is the cost of producing one more unit of a good.
Average cost
Fixed cost
Total revenue
Marginal cost
________ is the revenue gained from producing one more unit of a good.
Marginal revenue
Total revenue
Average cost
Fixed cost
________ is a government payment to support a business or market.
Subsidy
Tariff
Quota
Tax
________ are the steps the government takes to control production.
Properties
Subsidies
Regulation
Deregulation
What is my room number? (without getting up and looking)
417
403
409
410
