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An entrepreneur is someone who
Runs their own business and takes the risks of that business
is an employee at a successful business
Helps people
Is very rich and successful
2
If an economy experiences a period of economic decline
Depression
Recession
Inflation
Import
3
Trade by exchanging one good or service for another
Export
Recession
Barter
Import
4
Scarcity is known as a
lack of a resource
Importing water
abundance of resources
California
5
Something you pay for but don't own
Goods
House
Services
Ferrari
6
An economic system where beliefs and customs decide what people do, make, buy, and sell
Communism
Traditional Economy
Free-Market Economy
Command Economy
7
Things you can own.
Goods
A Doctor
A Haircut
Services
8
The growth in free trade between countries of the world
Import
Export
Barter
Globalization
9
A continued rise in prices
Recession
Scarcity
Inflation
Economics
10
What happens to the paper market when the cost of wood increases?
Demand Increases
Demand Decreases
Supply Decreases
Supply Increases
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This type of economy allows the
individual
to make choices about what to make, sell, and buy
Command Economy
Communism
Free-Market Economy
Traditional Economy
12
What is given up or sacrificed, such as time or money, to make or buy something else
Opportunity Cost
Traditional Economy
Scarcity
Recession
13
A good brought into a country from another country
Import
Export
Demand
Supply
14
The amount of a good or service a producer wants to sell
Services
Demand
Supply
Goods
15
A major earthquake hits Los Angeles. What happens to the market for building supplies?
Demand Decreases
Supply Increases
Demand Increases
Supply Decreases
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The amount of something a consumer wants to buy
Supply
Demand
17
The point where a business can make the most profit
Price
Equilibrium
Supply
Demand
18
An economic system where a central government decides what goods and services will be made
Free-Market Economy
Command Economy
Inflation
Traditional Economy
19
What happens to the market for gasoline when the supply of world oil begins to decrease?
Demand Decreases
Supply Increases
Supply Decreases
Demand Increases
20
When inflation rises money buys
More
Doesn't Matter
Less
Same