
Economics Vocabulary
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- Q1What are natural resources?buildingsresources that come from naturetechnologyworkers30s
- Q2People who perform labor, and companies invest in by training and educationHuman CapitaltechnologyCapital goodsresources30s
- Q3What are capital goods?resourecesitems that people need to perform their jobs like buildings, technology, tools, and machineryHuman capitalproduction30s
- Q4What are entrepreneurs?a person that uses knowledge to go to schoolpeople who enter new buildingsPeople with new ideas that are willing to take risks to start a business, making a product, or providing a serviceResources used to make goods30s
- Q5An exchange rate isdeciding whose business is the besthow much one money is worth when compared with anotherexchanging ideas about the cost of goods and servicesbartering goods and services30s
- Q6A tariff is:too many imports coming inTax on importsrestrictions placed on exportstweaking the trade of who sell only certain goods30s
- Q7What is an embargo?forbids or stops tradelimits tradea taxa good way to exchange goods and services30s
- Q8A quota:a tax placed on exportsa tax placed on importsthe number of businesses a person can ownRestricts or limits amounts of goods imported30s
- Q9All economic decisions are made by the governmenttraditionalCommandmarket30s
- Q10Government owns most of the property, sets the prices of goods, determines wages, etc.CommandTraditionalMarket30s
- Q11People make what they always made and do the same things their parents did.MarketCommandTraditional30s
- Q12Economic decisions based on buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) interactionsCommandMarketTraditional30s
- Q13inability of a country to produce everything people need and want from the available resources.demandScarcityrestrictionssupply30s
- Q14Using limited resources to produce a variety of goods & services; producing what the country can produce best.productionspecializationresourcesembargo30s
- Q15Gross Domestic Product or GDP isresourcesa budgetvalue of all goods and services produced in a Country in a yeargoods30s