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#Review game #Unit 1- Fundamental Economic Concepts Test
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1
The act of buyers and sellers freely and willingly engaging in market transactions:
Economics
voluntary exchange
involuntary exchange
standard of living
2
Which of the following is NOT a basic economic question?
What to produce?
How to produce?
For whom to produce for?
When to produce?
3
Tools, equipment, and factories used in the production of goods and services
Durable goods
entrepreneur
Capital goods
Consumer goods
4
Which group of people ultimately determine the products in a free enterprise economy?
Congress
local officials
The President
producers and consumers
5
Any combination/point below/inside the PPC illustrates
Efficiency/Full Employment
unachievable production (currently)
Inefficiency/Under production
6
Market where productive resources are bought and sold
Factor Market
Product Market
7
A productive resource that comes from nature, not man-made
capital
labor
entrepreneurship
land
8
A combination of goods and services outside/ (above) the PPC illustrates:
underproduction
maximum production
full production
Currently not possible OR unachievable production
9
Any point/combination on the PPC illustrates
Currently unachievable production
Efficiency/Full Employment
Inefficiency
10
In which market are the households sellers?
Factor/Resource
Product
11
Transfer payments include
unemployment benefits
taxes
protection
government regulations
12
Economic System- profit incentive, lots of choices in goods and services, private property
captialism
communism
socialism
Traditional
13
Movement along the production PPC illustrates which economic concept?
the four factors of production
scarcity
opportunity cost
human capital
14
Risk taking individuals in search of profits
Capital
Labor
Entrepreneurship
Land
15
What do economic systems do?
Answer the three basic economic questions
Distributes/Allocates Resources
All the above
Organize Production
16
Product intended for final use by consumers rather than businesses
human capital
capital good
consumer good
financial capital
17
In which market are the firms buyers?
Product
Factor/Resource
18
Economic Goal- fairness, illegal to discriminate based on age, race, sex, or disability
Economic efficiency
Economic security
Economic equity
Economic freedom
19
Competition does
gives a variety of products
all of these
lowers prices
better quality products
20
Free market system where the government has owns major FOPS, but some private ownership exists
capitalism
socialism
communism
Traditional
21
The basic problem in Economics and why people study it is due to
scarcity
marginal utility
utility
entrepreneurship
22
In capitalism, the motivation for starting and operating a business is to:
help everyone become more equal
earn profit for owners
provide jobs for workers
provide taxes for the government
23
Hammer, copy machine, saw, and factories
land
labor
entrepreneur
captial
24
The situation of limited resources and unlimited needs and wants creates
utility
scarcity
Marginal Benefit
choices
25
Voluntary exchange allows consumers to choose where they want to spend their money
True
False
26
The invisible hand of self interest says that businesses will produce quality products at acceptable prices
True
False
27
Capitalism is most closely associated with what economic system?
Traditional
Command/ Centrally Planned
Pure Market
Socialism
28
The Factor Payments for CELL are...
wages, rent, profit, interest
profit, interest, rent, wages
wages, interest, rent, profit
Interest, profits, rent, wages
29
Which of the following economic system has private property?
Market
Traditional
Command
30
Economic System- no private property, government answers the three basic economic questions
Traditional
socialism
communism
captialism
31
Which of the following examples best demonstrates opportunity cost?
Your brother chooses to read a book instead of watching TV
Your mother listens to the radio as she cooks dinner
You forget to bring a pencil to class
Your teacher assigns an essay for homework
32
Karl Marx believed that the people should have equal ownership of the FOPs
False
True
33
Economic System- based on old customs, basic needs are met, predictable, low standard of living
traditional
communism
socialism
capitalism
34
Which of the following examples would shift the PPC upwards- (illustrating economic growth)
All the above would shift the PPC upwards
Increase in Capital
Increase in Technology
Increase in Labor/Skills/Education
35
oil and water would be an example of which type of FOP
Entrepreneurship
Labor
Capital
Land
36
Which of the following is an investment in labor/human capital?
A country builds new schools
A state puts in a new highway
A company builds a new factory
a machine builds more chainsaws