What is Economics?
Across
- 1. of production the four things needed to produce goods and services: natural resources, labor, capital, and entrepreneurs
- 5. human-made items, such as machines and tools, that are used to produce goods and services
- 8. the amount of goods and services produced by a worker or business in a given time period
- 9. not enough of a certain resource to satisfy people's needs and wants
- 11. the study of how people, businesses, and governments choose to use their limited resources
- 12. workers
- 13. a person who comes up with the ideas for producing goods and services
Down
- 2. the use of resources to produce only a single good or a few kinds of goods or services
- 3. the use of science to create new or better goods and services or more efficient methods of production
- 4. cost whatever is given up when a choice must be made; a trade-off
- 6. things that can be seen, touched, and bought or sold
- 7. resource something provided by nature, such as wood, oil, and coal, that can be used to produce goods and services
- 10. an activity performed for others for money, such as teaching or selling