Basic Vocabulary for Economics

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Across
  1. 4. is when you have actual money to pay for an item
  2. 6. are people who decide how to combine resources to create new goods and services and are willing to take the risk.
  3. 7. the study of how people fulfill their unlimited needs and wants with Limited resources
  4. 8. This is the building tools of production- machinery, tools, buildings
  5. 11. is when a company sells an item for less than the cost of producing the item
  6. 14. All of the options you give up to do something else
  7. 15. the principle that limited goods and services are available to meet unlimited wants and needs
  8. 17. When items cannot be obtained for a limited time.
  9. 18. are what we must have in order to survive
Down
  1. 1. The next highest valued alternative to what you chose to do.
  2. 2. Who works where?
  3. 3. are the resources used to produce goods and services.
  4. 4. is when you purchase an item with the intent of paying for it later-an easy way to go into debt
  5. 5. is when a person spends more money than they make and have to OWE people/companies money
  6. 9. is when a company sells an item for a cost greater than the cost of producing that item
  7. 10. On, below, and above the land
  8. 12. trade goods for goods
  9. 13. trade valued based objects or goods
  10. 16. are the nice to have things