Economic Choices and Systems Key Terms

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Across
  1. 3. Goods and money used in the production of goods and services
  2. 9. Process of choosing which needs or wants will be satisfied
  3. 11. Combines elements of the command and market economies
  4. 12. Economic system which freedom to consume and produce goods and services exists
  5. 13. Economic system in which decisions are based on customs and centered on family
  6. 14. Necessities required for living
  7. 15. Economics system in which the government owns resources and dictates what is produced
  8. 20. Study of the decisions made for production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services to satisfy needs and wants
  9. 22. Raw materials supplied by nature
  10. 24. Businesses that offer the same goods to the same customers
  11. 25. Buys and uses the goods and services
  12. 26. Condition that exists when wants or needs exceed resources available
Down
  1. 1. The point where supply and demand are equal
  2. 2. Money left after selling goods and services and costs of operating a business have been paid
  3. 4. Value of the next-best alternative that is forgone to produce or obtain another product
  4. 5. Means from which goods and services are produced
  5. 6. Anywhere goods and services exchange hands
  6. 7. People using efforts, knowledge, and skills at work to produce goods and services
  7. 8. Items that can be purchased to satisfy needs and wants
  8. 9. The initiative to combine natural, human, and capital resource
  9. 10. Opportunity to make choices of goods and services and accept consequences of decisions
  10. 16. Goods and services are owned and controlled by the people
  11. 17. Goods that are purchased to add comfort or pleasure to life
  12. 18. Individuals and organizations that determine which goods and services will be available for consumption
  13. 19. Right to purchase, use, and discard of things of value
  14. 21. Activities that can be consumed at the time of purchase to satisfy needs and wants
  15. 23. Process of giving up something for gaining something else