Connor Bartlette's Econ Ch1.1 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. a measure of the amount of output produced by a given amount of inputs in a specific period of time
- 5. markets markets where productive resources are bought and sold
- 9. to the “gifts of nature” or natural resources not created by humans
- 10. a risk-taker in search of profits who does something new with existing resources
- 13. an item that is economically useful or satisfies an economic want
- 14. growth when a nation’s total output of goods and services increases over time
- 17. basic requirement for survival and includes food, clothing, and shelter
- 18. market markets where producers sell their goods and services to consumers
- 19. work that is performed for someone
- 20. of labor takes place when work is arranged so that individual workers do fewer tasks than before
- 23. good is intended for final use by individuals
- 24. of production resources required to produce the things we would like to have, are land, capital, labor, and entrepreneurship
- 26. tools, equipment, machinery, and factories used in the production of goods and services
Down
- 1. the process of creating goods and services
- 2. the capacity to be useful and provide satisfaction
- 3. of value is the situation where some necessities have little monetary value (water) and some non-necessities have a much higher value (diamonds)
- 4. refers to worth that can be expressed in dollars and cents
- 5. capital money used to buy the tools and equipment used in production
- 6. a location or other mechanism that allows buyers and sellers to exchange a certain economic product
- 7. the study of how people try to satisfy what appears to be seemingly unlimited and competing wants through the careful use of relatively scarce resources
- 8. interdependence means that we rely on others, and others rely on us, to provide the goods and services that we consume
- 10. products goods and services that are useful relatively scarce, and transferable to others
- 11. condition that results from society not having enough resources to produce all the the things people would like to have
- 12. a way of expressing a need
- 15. goods when manufactured goods are used to produce other goods and services
- 16. capital the sum of the skills, abilities, health and motivation of people
- 21. in an economic sense is the accumulation of those products that are tangible, scarce, useful and transferable from one person to another
- 22. Domestic Product (GDP) the dollar value of all final goods and services, and structures produced within a country’s borders in a 12 month period
- 25. people with all of their efforts, abilities, and skills