WorksheetsVocabulary Units 1-6
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
Fill in the blank: The basic principles that govern your behavior are called _________.
Ethics
Habits
Opinions
Skills
Fill in the blank: Standards that govern behavior; not dependent on circumstance are called _____________.
Ethical Principles
Social Norms
Legal Rules
Personal Preferences
Fill in the blank: An issue in which you must decide whether something is right or wrong is called an _____________.
Ethical Situation
Financial Situation
Legal Situation
Technical Situation
Fill in the blank: Adhering to an established set of personal ethics and sound moral principles; acting with honesty in all situations is called ___________.
Integrity
Ambition
Indifference
Deceit
Fill in the blank: Reliable; deserving the confidence of others is called being ___________.
Trustworthy
Careless
Dishonest
Indecisive
Unreliable
Fill in the blank: The condition of having to answer for or be liable for your actions; accepting responsibility for your decisions is called _____________.
Accountability
Indifference
Negligence
Ignorance
Fill in the blank: The quality of being just as one seems; being open and truthful when communicating is called _____________.
Transparency
Ambiguity
Secrecy
Manipulation
Fill in the blank: The ability to make judgments without favoritism or self-interest; engaging in fair competition and creating equal relationships is called _____________.
Fairness
Ambition
Authority
Creativity
Fill in the blank: Regard or esteem; honoring the rights, freedoms, views, and property of others is called _____________.
Respect
Tolerance
Obedience
Generosity
Fill in the blank: Complying with laws and regulations is called following the _____________.
Rule of Law
Code of Conduct
Social Norms
Ethical Guidelines
Fill in the blank: The long-term value of your choices is called _____________.
Viability
Liquidity
Flexibility
Profitability
Fill in the blank: An inflated sense of self-importance is called _____________.
Arrogance
Humility
Empathy
Patience
Fill in the blank: The result of an action is called a _____________.
Consequence
Solution
Reason
Method
Fill in the blank: A difficult situation in which you are required to make a decision is called a _____________.
Dilemma
Celebration
Solution
Agreement
Fill in the blank: An issue in which you must decide whether something is right or wrong; sometimes referred to as an ethical situation is called an _____________.
Ethical dilemma
Legal contract
Financial dispute
Technical error
Fill in the blank: Instinct; gut feeling is called _____________.
Intuition
Logic
Analysis
Calculation
Fill in the blank: A person whose behavior is imitated by others is called a _____________.
Role model
Follower
Mentor
Stranger
A business that operates out of a physical facility (instead of online). Fill in the blank: __________
Brick and mortar
E-commerce
Virtual office
Remote business
A type of producer that constructs roads, bridges, buildings, houses, etc. Fill in the blank: __________
Builders
Farmers
Doctors
Teachers
People who use goods and services to satisfy their wants. Fill in the blank: __________
Consumers
Producers
Manufacturers
Retailers
Retailers who operate solely online. Fill in the blank: __________
E-tailers
Wholesalers
Brick-and-mortar stores
Distributors
A type of producer that changes the shapes or forms of materials so that they will be useful to consumers. Fill in the blank: __________
Manufacturer
Retailer
Wholesaler
Consumer
The people who make or provide goods and services. Fill in the blank: __________
Producers
Consumers
Managers
Buyers
A type of producer that provides goods in their natural state. Fill in the blank: __________
Raw-goods producer
Retailer
Manufacturer
Wholesaler
A business that buys consumer goods or services and sells them to the ultimate consumer. Fill in the blank: __________
Retailer
Manufacturer
Wholesaler
Distributor
A type of business that performs intangible activities that satisfy the needs and wants of consumers or industrial users. Fill in the blank: __________
Service business
Manufacturing business
Retail business
Agricultural business
The duty of business to contribute to the well-being of society. Fill in the blank: __________
Social responsibility
Profit maximization
Market competition
Product innovation
Businesses that buy and sell goods to others; retailers and wholesalers. Fill in the blank: __________
Trade industries
Manufacturing industries
Service industries
Agricultural industries
Intermediaries who help move goods between producers and retailers by buying goods from producers and selling them to retailers. Fill in the blank: __________
Wholesalers
Manufacturers
Consumers
Agents
Manufactured or constructed items that are used in the production of goods and services. Fill in the blank: __________
Capital goods
Consumer goods
Raw materials
Labor
Products produced for personal consumption. Fill in the blank: __________
Consumer goods and services
Industrial goods
Raw materials
Capital goods
The process or activity of using goods and services; the economic process or activity of using goods and services. Fill in the blank: __________
Consumption
Production
Distribution
Investment
The quantity of a good or service that buyers are ready to buy at a given price at a particular time. Fill in the blank: __________
Demand
Supply
Price
Revenue
The economic process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers. Fill in the blank: __________
Distribution
Consumption
Production
Exchange
Physical objects that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. Fill in the blank: __________
Economic goods
Economic services
Natural resources
Consumer needs
The human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services. Fill in the blank: __________
Economic resources
Financial statements
Market demand
Consumer preferences
Productive acts that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. Fill in the blank: __________
Economic services
Natural resources
Consumer goods
Capital investments
A desire for something that can only be satisfied by spending money. Fill in the blank: __________
Economic want
Physical need
Natural resource
Personal skill
The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources. Fill in the blank: __________
Economics
Biology
Geography
Physics
A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand. Fill in the blank: __________
Elastic demand
Inelastic demand
Unitary demand
Perfect demand
An indication of how changes in price will affect changes in the amounts demanded and supplied. Fill in the blank: __________
Elasticity
Inflation
Subsidy
Equilibrium
The point at which the quantity supplied is equal to the quantity demanded is called _________.
Equilibrium
Surplus
Shortage
Price ceiling
The situation that exists when demand is greater than supply is known as _________.
Excess demand
Excess supply
Equilibrium
Surplus
The situation that exists when supply is greater than demand is called _________.
Excess supply
Shortage
Equilibrium
Deficit
The economic process of trading one good/service for another is called _________.
Exchange
Production
Consumption
Investment
Productive resources; human and natural resources and capital goods are known as _________.
Factors of production
Goods and services
Supply chain
Market forces
People who work to produce goods and services are called _________.
Human resources
Natural resources
Capital resources
Entrepreneurs
Products purchased by producers for resale, to make other goods and services, and/or to use in business operations are called _________.
Industrial goods and services
Consumer goods
Luxury goods
Perishable goods
A form of demand in which changes in price do not affect demand is called _________.
Inelastic demand
Elastic demand
Composite demand
Derived demand
Economic principle which states that the quantity of a good or service that people will buy varies inversely with the price of the good or service is called _________.
Law of demand
Law of supply
Equilibrium price
Marginal utility
Economic principle which states that the quantity of a good or service that will be offered for sale varies in direct relation to its price is called _________.
Law of supply
Law of demand
Law of diminishing returns
Law of equilibrium
Economic principle which states that the supply of a good or service will increase when demand is great and decrease when demand is low is called _________.
Law of supply and demand
Law of diminishing returns
Law of averages
Law of opportunity cost
Items found in nature that are used to produce goods and services are called _________.
Natural resources
Capital resources
Human resources
Manufactured goods
Something required or essential that is lacking is called a _________.
Need
Want
Desire
Luxury
Desires for things that can be obtained without spending money are called _________.
Noneconomic want
Economic want
Financial want
Material want
The benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than for another is called _________
Opportunity cost
Marginal cost
Sunk cost
Fixed cost
The amount of money paid for a good, service, or resource is called _________.
Price
Tax
Interest
Wage
The economic process or activity of producing goods and services is called _________.
Production
Consumption
Distribution
Exchange
A condition resulting from the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants for goods and services is called _________.
Scarcity
Inflation
Monopoly
Surplus
The quantity of a good or service that sellers are able and willing to offer for sale at a specified price in a given time period is called _________.
Supply
Demand
Revenue
Consumption
Giving up all or a part of one thing in order to get something else is called a _________.
Trade-off
Investment
Profit
Substitution
A desire for something that is not required is called a _________.
Want
Need
Necessity
Obligation
An economic system in which all or many of the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the government. Fill in the blank: __________
Command economy
Market economy
Mixed economy
Traditional economy
A command economic system in which the government controls the economic system and does not allow private ownership of the means of production and distribution. Fill in the blank: __________
Communism
Capitalism
Socialism
Feudalism
The organized way in which a country handles its economic decisions and solves its economic problems. Fill in the blank: __________
Economic system
Political system
Social system
Legal system
An economic system in which the questions of what, how, and for whom goods will be produced are answered by individuals and businesses in the marketplace. Fill in the blank: __________
Market economy
Command economy
Traditional economy
Mixed economy
A modified command economic system in which government owns the basic means of production and allows private ownership of businesses as well. Fill in the blank: __________
Socialism
Capitalism
Feudalism
Mercantilism
An economic system in which people produce only what they must have in order to exist; all economic decisions are based on habit and tradition. Fill in the blank: __________
Traditional economy
Market economy
Command economy
Mixed economy
An individual who: invents, develops, and distributes a good or provides a service; assumes the risks of starting and building a business; and receives personal and financial rewards for her/his efforts. Fill in the blank: __________
Entrepreneur
Manager
Employee
Investor
An economic system in which individuals and groups, rather than the government, own or control the means of production–the human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services. Fill in the blank: __________
Private enterprise/free enterprise
Command economy
Mixed economy
Traditional economy
A business that employs 500 or fewer people. Fill in the blank: __________
Small business
Corporation
Non-profit organization
Multinational company
A risk-response strategy that involves choosing not to do something that is considered risky is called _________.
Avoidance
Mitigation
Transference
Acceptance
The possibility of loss (failure) or gain (success) inherent in conducting business is known as _________.
Business risk
Business profit
Business plan
Business strategy
The rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars is called _________.
Competition
Monopoly
Collaboration
Merger
The amount of money a business pays for the products it sells or for the raw materials from which it produces goods to sell is called _________.
Cost of goods
Gross profit
Net income
Operating expenses
Rivalry between or among businesses that offer similar types of goods or services is called _________.
Direct competition
Indirect competition
Monopoly
Collaboration
The possibility of loss or failure that occurs as a result of the economy is known as _________.
Economic risks
Physical risks
Legal risks
Technological risks
The money that a business spends is called _________.
Expenses
Revenue
Assets
Profit
Money left after the cost-of-goods expense is subtracted from total income is called _________.
Gross profit
Net income
Operating expense
Revenue
The possibility of loss or failure from human error is called _________.
Human risks
Natural risks
Technical risks
Financial risks
The money received by resource owners and by producers for supplying goods and services to customers is called _________.
Income
Expense
Debt
Tax
Rivalry between or among businesses that offer dissimilar goods or services is called _________
Indirect competition
Direct competition
Perfect competition
Monopolistic competition
The type of market, or environment, in which businesses operate is called _________
Market structure
Market share
Market demand
Market equilibrium
A type of market structure in which a market is controlled by one supplier, and there are no substitute goods or services readily available is called _________.
Monopoly
Oligopoly
Perfect Competition
Monopolistic Competition
The possibility of loss or failure from nature is called _________.
Natural risks
Financial risks
Human risks
Technical risks
Money left after the cost-of-goods expense and the operating expense are each subtracted from the total income is called _________.
Net profit
Gross profit
Operating income
Revenue
A type of rivalry between or among businesses that involves factors other than price is called _________.
Nonprice competition
Price war
Monopolistic competition
Market segmentation
A market structure in which there are relatively few sellers, and industry leaders usually determine prices is called _________?
Oligopoly
Monopoly
Perfect Competition
Monopolistic Competition
All of the expenses involved in running a business are called _________.
Operating expenses
Gross profit
Net income
Revenue
A market structure in which there are many businesses selling a lot of identical products for about the same price to many buyers is called _________.
Perfect competition
Monopoly
Oligopoly
Monopolistic competition
A type of rivalry between or among businesses that focuses on the use of price to attract scarce customer dollars is called _________?
Price competition
Product differentiation
Non-price competition
Market segmentation
Monetary reward a business owner receives for taking the risk involved in investing in a business is called _________.
Profit
Revenue
Salary
Interest
The desire to make a profit, which moves people to invest in business, is called _________.
Profit motive
Capital gain
Market share
Risk aversion
Chances of loss that carry with them the possibility of loss or no loss are called _________
Pure risks
Speculative risks
Insurable risks
Uninsurable risks
A risk-response strategy that involves trying to reduce the chance of loss or severity of loss is called _________.
Reduction
Avoidance
Transfer
Acceptance
Monopolies that the government allows to exist legally under controlled conditions are called _________
Regulated monopolies
Natural monopolies
Unregulated monopolies
Private monopolies
A risk-response strategy that involves assuming responsibility for the risk rather than transferring it is called _________.
Retention
Avoidance
Mitigation
Transference
Chances of loss that may result in loss, no change, or gain are called _________
Speculative risks
Pure risks
Fundamental risks
Particular risks
Transfer: A risk-response strategy that involves moving the impact of a risk to someone or _________
something else
the same person
the project manager
the customer
Accounting: keeping accurate and useful financial records; and analyzing and interpreting the ________ information.
recorded
financial
general
historical
