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Introduction to Supply and Demand

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of 'supply'?

a)

Amount of something

b)

Consumer want + ability to pay

c)

Amount producers are willing to sell

d)

What buyers pay for something

2.

What does 'demand' refer to?

a)

Amount of something

b)

What buyers pay for something

c)

Consumer want + ability to pay

d)

Amount producers are willing to sell

3.

What is a 'market'?

a)

Consumer want + ability to pay

b)

What buyers pay for something

c)

Amount producers are willing to sell

d)

Place where products are exchanged

4.

What happens when there is a surplus?

a)

Supply equals demand

b)

Demand equals supply

c)

Demand is greater than supply

d)

Supply is greater than demand

5.

What is the result of a shortage?

a)

Supply is greater than demand

b)

Demand equals supply

c)

Supply equals demand

d)

Demand is greater than supply

6.

What is 'equilibrium' in a market?

a)

Demand is greater than supply

b)

Supply is greater than demand

c)

Demand equals supply

d)

Supply equals demand

7.

Who is a 'consumer'?

a)

Person who buys the product

b)

Makes or sells the product

c)

Amount producers are willing to sell

d)

Group working towards shared goal

8.

Who is a 'producer'?

a)

Makes or sells the product

b)

Person who buys the product

c)

Amount producers are willing to sell

d)

Group working towards shared goal

9.

What are 'goods'?

a)

Physical items people buy

b)

Actions people buy

c)

Amount producers are willing to sell

d)

Consumer want + ability to pay

10.

What are 'services'?

a)

Actions people buy

b)

Physical items people buy

c)

Amount producers are willing to sell

d)

Consumer want + ability to pay

11.

What is the role of a 'market'?

a)

Where buyers and sellers meet to set prices

b)

What buyers pay for something

c)

Consumer want + ability to pay

d)

Amount producers are willing to sell

12.

What happens when demand exceeds supply?

a)

Prices tend to rise

b)

Supply increases

c)

Prices tend to fall

d)

Demand decreases

13.

What happens when supply exceeds demand?

a)

Demand increases

b)

Prices may rise

c)

Supply decreases

d)

Prices may fall

14.

What is the 'market clearing price'?

a)

Price where demand equals supply

b)

Price where supply exceeds demand

c)

Price where demand exceeds supply

d)

Price where supply equals demand

15.

What is the effect of a new technology on production costs?

a)

It can lower production costs

b)

It can increase production costs

c)

It has no effect on production costs

d)

It always increases demand

16.

What is a 'surplus'?

a)

Supply is greater than demand

b)

Demand is greater than supply

c)

Demand equals supply

d)

Supply equals demand

17.

What is a 'shortage'?

a)

Supply equals demand

b)

Demand equals supply

c)

Supply is greater than demand

d)

Demand is greater than supply

18.

What influences the price of an item in a market?

a)

Supply and demand

b)

Only supply

c)

Only demand

d)

Neither supply nor demand

19.

What is the effect of high demand and low supply on prices?

a)

Prices are unpredictable

b)

Prices usually rise

c)

Prices remain constant

d)

Prices usually fall

20.

What is the effect of low demand and high supply on prices?

a)

Prices usually fall

b)

Prices usually rise

c)

Prices remain constant

d)

Prices are unpredictable

21.

What happens to demand if the price of a good increases?

a)

Demand becomes zero

b)

Demand remains constant

c)

Demand decreases

d)

Demand increases

22.

What happens to supply if the price of a good increases?

a)

Supply remains constant

b)

Supply increases

c)

Supply decreases

d)

Supply becomes zero

23.

What is the equilibrium price?

a)

The price at which the quantity demanded by consumers is greater than the quantity supplied by producers

b)

The price at which the quantity demanded by consumers is less than the quantity supplied by producers

c)

The price at which the quantity demanded by consumers is equal to the quantity supplied by producers

d)

The price at which the quantity demanded by consumers is zero

24.

What does this curve represent?

a)

Supply

b)

Equilibrium

c)

Demand

d)

Surplus

25.

According to the law of demand, as price rises, what happens to quantity demanded?

a)

It goes up

b)

It goes down

c)

It stays the same

d)

No change

26.

The movement from Point A to Point B represents a(n)

a)

increase in the price

b)

decrease in the quantity supplied

c)

shift in the supply curve

27.

A decrease in the price of a product will

a)

shift supply out

b)

shift supply in

c)

increase quantity supplied

d)

decrease quantity supplied

28.

Which diagram shows the supply curve?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

29.

According to the law of supply, if the price of a product increases...

a)

Supply decreases

b)

Supply increases

c)

Supply won't change

d)

None of the above