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AP-Macroeconomics - Unit II Part 1
AP-Macroeconomics - Unit II Part 1
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1
An “increase in demand” means a
_________
shift of any given demand or supply curve.
Upward
Rightward
Leftward
Downward
2
Efficient production exists when the economy is _____
operating underneath its production possibility curve.
in a recession.
operating on its production possibility curve.
moving beyond its production possibility curve.
3
This branch of Economic analysis makes prescriptions about the way the economy
should
work.
Microeconomics
Normative Economics
Macroeconomics
Positive Economics
4
The labor force is the sum of Employment & ______
Unemployment
Labor
Work
Recession
5
This is the branch of economic analysis that describes the way the economy actually works.
Macroeconomics
Normative Economics
Microeconomics
Positive Economics
6
This is a model of how a competitive market works.
Demand curve
Trade curve
Productions possibility model
Supply and demand model
7
This is the willingness of people to organize & assume risks involved with business ventures
Entrepreneurship
Capital projects
Employment
Risky investments
8
Coal, Corn and paper are associated back to this main resource.
Land
Food
Wands
Industry’s
9
this economic disaster lasted from 2008 until 2010
Employment
The Great Depression
Unemployment
The Great Recession
10
There is a
_________
of a good when the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded.
Deficit
Surplus
Equilibrium
Shortage
11
Someone makes a
________
when they give up something to get something else.
Trade-off
A widget
Opportunity cost
Individual choice
12
This is the study of how people make decisions & how those decisions affect others in the econ.
Economics
Sociology
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
13
People who better understand the econ. from the gov. perspective tend to use this analysis
Normative Economics
Macroeconomics
Positive Economics
Microeconomics
14
increase in an econ. resources & progress in technology, are the two general sources of this.
Increased demand
Aggregate output
Capital Goods
Economic Growth
15
All Resources are ________
Copious
Ample
Scarce
Abundant
16
These are periods of economic downturns when output and employment are falling.
Recession
Depression
The economic
The business cycle
17
A market equilibrium occurs where the supply curve and the _________ intersect.
Production curve
Denoted curve
Equal curve
Demand curve
18
Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurship is known in economics as the_______.
Supplies demanded
Factors of Production
Scarce Resources
Constant demands
19
we usually lump together changes in demand due to fads, and so on under the heading __
Changes in factors
Substitutes
Changes in tastes
Changes in expectations
20
The real cost of an item is its __________ or what you must give up in order to get it.
Individual choice
Resource
Opportunity cost
Scarcity
21
this economic disaster lasted from 1929 until the late 1930s
Unemployment
The Great Recession
Employment
The Great Depression
22
In a given economy, __________ is the total number of people currently working for pay.
labor force
Unemployment
Depression
Employment
23
This is the short-run alternation between economic downturns and economic upturns.
Depression
The business cycle
The economic cycle
Recession
24
This is the study of the economy as a whole.
Sociology
Macroeconomics
U.S. History
Microeconomics
25
This law says that the price and quantity supplied of a good are positively related.
Chester’s Law
Mr. Reynolds Law
Law of quantity
Law of Supply