Economics: Words to Know

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Across
  1. 1. The accumulation of those products that are tangible, scarce, useful and transferable to others
  2. 3. The capacity to be useful
  3. 4. Alternative choices
  4. 7. The process of creating goods and services can take place when land, labor, capital and entrepreneurs are present
  5. 9. When factors of production perform tasks that they can do relatively more efficiently than others
  6. 10. Work that is performed for someone
  7. 12. Tools and equipment used in the production of goods and services
  8. 14. An individual who brings together the factors of production to make something new
  9. 15. Water vs. Diamonds
  10. 17. goods and services that are useful, relatively scarce and transferable to others
  11. 19. The market where productive resources are bought and sold
  12. 21. The study of how people satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources
  13. 22. The dollar value of all final goods produced in a country's borders within in 12-month period
  14. 23. A way of expressing a need
  15. 26. People with all their efforts, abilities and skills
  16. 28. A diagram representing various combinations of goods and services an economy can produce
  17. 32. Is intended by final use by consumer
  18. 34. The condition that results from society not having enough resources
  19. 35. The measure of the amount of output produced by a given amount of inputs in a specific period of time
  20. 36. Worth that is expressed in dollars and cents
Down
  1. 2. Is the sum of skills, abilities, health and motivation of people
  2. 5. Occurs when a nation's total output of goods and services increases over time
  3. 6. Manufactured goods used to produce other goods
  4. 8. A way of thinking about a problem that compares the cost of an action to the benefits received
  5. 11. One in which consumers and privately owned business, rather than the government
  6. 13. Markets where producers sell their good and services to consumers
  7. 16. Resources required to produce things we would like to have, are land, capital, labor and entrepreneurs
  8. 18. We rely on others and other rely on us to provide the goods and services that we consume
  9. 20. A basic requirement for survival
  10. 24. An item that is economically useful
  11. 25. Gifts of Nature or resources not created by humans
  12. 27. Takes place when work is arranged so that individual workers do fewer tasks than before
  13. 29. The cost of the next best alternative use of money, time and resources
  14. 30. The quality of life based on possession of the necessities and luxuries that make life easier
  15. 31. The money used to buy tools and equipment
  16. 33. A location that allows buyers and sellers to exchange certain economic products