economics test vocab
Across
- 2. industries with businesses that sell directly to consumers
- 4. the resources needed to produce goods and services
- 9. countries with weak economies and a lower quality of life
- 11. people who organize, mange and assume the risk of businesses
- 12. raw materials and land
- 16. when factors of production are not distributed equally and businesses produce a narrow range of products
- 17. economy where government controls all the factors of production
- 18. money an individual or business has left after paying expenses
- 19. economy based on private ownership, free trade and competition- people are free to buy and sell what they wish
- 21. when a business grows due to an increase in one of the factors of production
- 26. a type of economy that most closely resembles a market system with private ownership of resources
- 28. few limits are placed on business activities- another name for US's capitalism
- 30. industries where businesses make finished products from raw materials
- 32. industries with businesses that provide services rather than goods
- 33. economy based on long established customs- focused on survival
- 36. industries where businesses use raw materials to make other products
- 37. combination of traditional, market and command economies
- 38. first level of industry- businesses that provide raw materials harvested from earth
- 39. businesses that do research such as librarians, computer programmers and scientists
- 40. system of producing, selling, and buying goods and services
Down
- 1. value of all goods and services produced in a country in a single year
- 3. industries where businesses focus on growing crops and raising livestock
- 5. value of the thing given up when a choice is made
- 6. a type of economy that most closely resembles a command system where government makes all decisions
- 7. industries with businesses that sell to other businesses
- 8. goods used to make other goods, like machinery and tools
- 10. countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
- 13. desire to have a good or service
- 14. a reducing of a business because a factor of production is in short supply
- 15. problem of having unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources
- 18. these are goods provided by the government with tax money such as schools
- 19. anything that is used in payment for goods or services
- 20. the use of money today, such as buying stock in a company, in order to earn future benefits
- 22. businesses where goods and services are exchanged such as wholesale, retail and service industries
- 23. labor in exchange for payment in the form of an hourly wage, or a salary
- 24. the amount of a good or service that is available for use
- 25. human time, effort and skills
- 27. money an individual or business has left after paying expenses
- 29. system in which one nations depends on another to provide goods and services it does not produce
- 31. the exchange of one good or service for another
- 34. benefits that influence economic activity- reason for working hard
- 35. a type of economy with elements of a market system but with certain industries controlled by government