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Civics Chapter 18
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Need | Requirement fir survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter |
| Want | A thing we would like to have, such as entertainment,vacations, or an item that makes life comfortable and enjoyable |
| Economics | The study of how individuals and nations make choices about ways to use scarce resources to fulfill their needs and wants |
| Macroeconomics | Economic behavior and decision making by government or whole industries or societies |
| Microeconomics | The economic behavior and decision-making by individuals and small businesses |
| Economic model | Simplified representation of the real world that economists develop to describe how the economy behaves and is expected to preform in the future |
| Economic system | Nation's way of producing things its people want and need |
| Resource | The money,people, and materials available to accomplish a community's goal / Wealth |
| Scarcity |