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ECON Unit 1 Review
ECON Unit 1 Review
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Basic Economic Thought
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Swier can spend $20 at the school store on a Tshirt or hat. If i chose the shirt, the hat is my
Opportunity Cost
Specialization
Scarcity
Productivity
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What is the best title for the following list: Innovator, Strategist, Risk Taker
Capitalist
Entrepreneur
Investor
Laborer
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Work someone does for someone else
Needs
Wants
Goods
Services
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Study of choices made by households, companies and individual markets
Microeconomics
Cultural economics
Normal economics
Macroeconomics
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If this company wants to efficiently produce BOTH, it could produce at which point?
E
B
F
A
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Things you can see, touch, buy, or sell
Wants
Services
Needs
Goods
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If this company produces at point E, then
it is beyond its production possibilities curve
it is using its resources inefficiently
it is on its production possibilities curbve
It is using its resources efficiently
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Examines the behavior of entire economies
Macroeconomics
Normal economics
Cultural economics
Microeconomics
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The study of how people make choices
Ecology
Economics
Social Studies
Sociology
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This is a factor that encourages us to do something.
Your Mom
Market
Incentive
Margin
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Which strategy may help a company improve efficiency?
divide labor by specializing
Assign more tasks to workers
introduce a new product line
replace machinery with workers
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In explaining the concept of scarcity, economists make which assumption?
Buyers and sellers make voluntary exchange
Opportunity costs arise only when someone spends money
People's wants are basically fixed
Peoples wants are unlimited
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John has six shirts and is trying to decide whether to buy a seventh. This is an example of
Incentives matter
Thinking at the margin
Costs vs. benefits
Scarcity forces tradeoffs
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Machines and tools needed to produce your product.
Labor
Entrepreneurship
Land (Natural Resources)
Capital
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Susan wants to play softball and work after school. She plays softball, so what is her opp cost
playing softball
working
there is none
being with friends
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For this company, point G is
an inefficient level
an impossible level
an efficient level
a possible level
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Things people desire but can live without
Needs
Wants
Goods
Services
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Not having enough of a certain resource to satisfy all our wants and needs
Scarcity
Economics
Opportunity Cost
Service
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If this company uses all its resources to produce airplanes, it will produce at which point?
B
E
A
F
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Things provided by the Earth used in making a product
Entrepreneurship
Land (Natural Resources)
Labor
Capital
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Things everyone must have to survive
Needs
Wants
Goods
Services
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People's wants are unlimited. This fact means that which of the following is always present?
Shortages
Costs of Production
Marginal Utility
Scarcity
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Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 basic economic questions?
for whom to produce
Where to produce
How to produce
What to produce
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Workers at a company, like a computer operator.
Land (Natural Resources)
Labor
Entrepreneurship
Capital
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People with ideas for goods/services - willing to take risks
Labor
Entrepreneurship
Land (Natural Resources)
Capital