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Economics Unit 1: Fundamental Economic Concepts 2020-21
Economics Unit 1: Fundamental Economic Concepts 2020-21
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Fundamental Economic Concepts, economics
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1
Alternative choices are also called...
Opportunity Cost
Trade Offs
Costs-Benefit Analysis
Needs
2
Which economic system encourages private ownership of resources and entrepreneurship?
Traditional
Market
Mixed
Command
3
What impact does increased regulation often have on an industry?
It increases operating costs for a business.
It encourages companies to leave an industry and go out of business.
It makes businesses produce more efficiently.
The quality or safety of a product is unaffected.
4
Mr. Krabs (owner of The Krusty Krab) would represent
Land
Capital
Labor
Entrepreneurship
5
What number should appear in place of the X in the table?
$200
$400
$2600
$300
6
This image represents
Entrepreneurship
Labor
Capital
Land
7
What is an opportunity cost?
Everything you didn't choose
The value of the next best alternative
Having unlimited wants
Not having enough
8
Which economic system strives to achieve equality above all other goals?
Command System
Market System
Mixed System
Traditional System
9
The potential rewards that serve as motivation to an individual are known as
Premiums
Gifts
Benefits
Incentives
10
If the benefits of going to college for Tim outweigh the costs then going to college is
excessive marginal detriment
a rational Decision
an opportunity cost
an Irrational Decision
11
Which of the following is NOT an example of a command economy?
North Korea
Australia
Cuba
Former Soviet Union
12
The image below represents what economic system?
Command
Traditional
Mixed
Market
13
What does point C represent on the production possibilities frontier?
Maximum/Efficient production
Production that is not possible
Overproduction
Inefficient production
14
What is usually the motivation for producers to sell their products at a price consumers can afford?
that is what their ancestors did
fear of government regulations
attempt to make a profit
sense of duty to country
15
Both parties in a transaction believe they benefit under
Traditional economy
Capitalism
Voluntary Exchange
Opportunity Cost
16
Which economic system is characterized by decisions made by a central authority?
Command
Market
Traditional
Mixed
17
Which of the following is
NOT
a reason the gov't would get involved in a mixed market economy?
Control Consumer Choices
Consumer Safety
Promote Competition
Protect Property and Ideas
18
When a society invests in education, they improve their standard of living by increasing
land
labor
human capital
capital goods
19
Sponge Bob's spatula represents
Land
Labor
Capital
Entrepreneurship
20
What does point X represent on the production possibilities frontier?
Inefficient use of resources (unemployment)
That a factory is producing as much as they possibly could
More of product A is being produced
More of product B is being produced
21
What does point Y represent on the production possibilities frontier?
Inefficient production
A production level that is impossible
Maximum/Efficient production
Political stability
22
Sponge Bob represents
Labor
Capital
Entrepreneurship
Land
23
Which of the following is NOT one 3 basic economic question that societies must answer?
Why to Produce?
For Whom to Produce?
How to Produce?
What to Produce?
24
A
pure
market economy is characterized by?
Goverment Control
Consumer power
A combination of customs, government, and consumer choice
Societal customs
25
Which economic concept is illustrated by a PPC?
Transfer Cost
Role of Government
Opportunity Cost
What to Produce
26
Another name for the market system is?
Command
Free Enterprise
Traditional
Capitalist
27
All of the following are public transfer payments EXCEPT
Unemployment Benefits
Business Subsidies
Food Stamps
National Defense