Unit 3 SLO 3.1 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. goods and services bought by consumers for their direct use
- 6. business purchase of tools, machines, buildings, and so on, used to produce other goods. Includes money spent on business inventories
- 9. total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a nation in a single year
- 11. percentage of the civilian labor force that is unemployed but is actively looking for work
- 12. the difference between what a nation sells to other countries (exports) and what it buys from other countries (imports)
- 13. Unemployment caused by changes in the economy such as technological advances or discoveries of natural resources
- 14. the goods and services bought by the federal, state, and local governments from anything to paper clips to airplanes.
Down
- 1. Temporary unemployment between jobs because of firings, layoffs, voluntary searches for new jobs or retraining
- 2. prolonged rise in the general price level of goods and services
- 4. measure of the change in price over time (usually a month) of a specific group of goods and services used by the average household
- 5. Period of prosperity in a business cycle in which economic activity is at its highest point
- 7. part of the business cycle in which the downward spiral of the economy levels off
- 8. part of the business cycle in which economic activity slowly increases
- 10. part of the business cycle during which economic activity is slowing down
- 15. Unemployment caused by changes in the seasons or weather
- 16. Unemployment associated with up or down fluctuations in the business cycle