Across
- 4. Risk-taking individuals who introduces new products or services in search of profits; one of the four factors of production.
- 8. Cost of the next best alternative use of money, time, or resources, when one choice is made rather than another.
- 9. Tangible economic product that is useful, transferable, to others, and used to satisfy needs and wants.
- 11. Tools, equipment, and factories used in the production of goods and services; one of the four factors of production.
- 13. Work or labor performed for someone; economic product that includes haircuts, home repairs, and forms of entertainment.
- 16. Good that lasts for at least three years when used regularly.
- 17. Productive resources needed to produce goods; the four factors are land, capital, labor, and entrepreneurship.
- 19. Item that wears out or lasts fewer than three years when used regularly.
- 20. A visual representation showing the relationship between the factor market (where income is obtained) and the product market (where income is used to make purchases).
Down
- 1. People with all their abilities and efforts; one of the factors of production; does not include the entrepreneur.
- 2. Fundamental economic problem of meeting people’s virtually unlimited needs and wants with scarce resources.
- 3. Social science dealing with how people satisfy seemingly unlimited needs and wants with scarce resources.
- 5. Basic requirement for survival, including food, clothing, and shelter.
- 6. Graph, figure, equation, or diagram used to describe how the economy is expected to perform in the future.
- 7. Something we would like to have but is not necessary for survival.
- 10. Tool, equipment, or other manufactured good used to produce other goods and services; a factor of production.
- 12. Natural resources or “gifts of nature” not created by human effort; one of the four factors of production.
- 14. Increase in a nation’s total output of goods and services over time.
- 15. Measure of the amount of output produced in a specific time period with a given amount of resources; normally refers to labor, but can apply to all factors of production.
- 18. Good intended for final use by consumers other than businesses.