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Eco- ch 1 text 2011

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What is the study of how individuals and society make choices to use scarce resources to fill unlimited needs and wants?   economics  
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What is the most basic problem of economics?   scarcity  
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What exists when demand is greater than supply?   scarcity  
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What is the temporary condition of not having enough resources called?   shortages  
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What is an example of a shortage?   Haiti not having having enough medicine to treat the sick after the hurricane in 2006  
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To economists, everything other than a basic survival item is a what?   want  
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The need to make choices arises because   resources are limited, but needs and wants are unlimited.  
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What are resources used to produce goods and services called?   factors of production  
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List the 4 factors of production   land. labor, capital (human and physical) and entrepreneurship  
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What is the amount of output that results from a given level of inputs (land, labor, capital)?   productivity  
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What are advances in knowlege leading to new and improved goods and services and better ways of production?   technology  
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The exchange of one item for the use of another is know as what?   a trade-off  
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What refers tot he natural resources and actual surface land?   land  
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WHat refers tot he work people do?   labor  
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What refers to the manufactured goods used to make other goods?   capital  
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What type of capital would job training and workshops be considered?   human capital  
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The ability of risk talking people to develop new products and start business in order to make a profit is know as what?   entrpreneurship  
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What FOP are: assembly lines, factories, wrenches...   capital  
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What FOP are: oil, water, 10 acres   land  
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What FOP are: painter, doctor, machinist   labor  
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What FOP are: business owners, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban   entrepreneurs  
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What is the value of the next best alternative given up in a trade off?   opportunity cost  
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Even the wealthiest man in the world experiences scarcity in terms of what resource?   time  
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What is the graph that shows the maximum combination of goods and services that can be produced from a fixed amount of reources and set amount of time?   PPC- production possibilities curve  
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What direction will a PPC shift if a new sources of labor is introduced?   right  
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What direction will a PPC shift if natural resources are lost?   left  
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The model "Guns Vs. Butter" refers to what?   production of military goods vs. consumer goods  
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In a PPC, what are the different types of resources that could cause a shift in the curve to the left or right?   loss or gain of land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship  
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What do you call the amount of decrease of a product due to the loss of resources?   a recessionary gap  
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If a country were underutilizing its resources (recession), where would the point of production be on a PPC?   to the left of the original curve  
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What is the difference between a want and a need?   needs are basic to survival; wants are not  
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Why must consumers make choices?   everything that exists is limited  
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How are trade offs and opportunity costs related?   every trade off involves an opportunity cost  
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What is the opportunity cost of going to a four year college after high school instead of working?   potential earnings  
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What does making a trade off require you to do?   exchange one thing for another  
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