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Social Studies Final
Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| benefits | The positive aspects associated with a choice. |
| scarcity | Theb absence of something that results from the conflict between unlimited wants and limited resources |
| Opportunity Cost | The most important benefit that you give up because you chose something else |
| Traditional | Everyone works for the good everyone else. Made up, of family units. |
| Command | You have little say in economics decisions. You will do as you are told and you will like it or else |
| Market | People have a major say in economic decisions. Most are motivared by the opportunity to make money |
| Mixed | An economy that is a mixture of the three basic systems |
| land | the non man-made materials (natural resources) used to make a product or provide a service |
| labor | The skills, knowledge, time and energy of people involved in making a product or providing a service. Think of it as "People Power" |
| Capital | Man made items like tools and factories used to produce a good or service |
| Wants | The desire or need for a product or service |
| Production | The combination of the land, labor, and capital to make a good or provide service |
| Distribution | The act of making a product or service available to people |
| Consumption | The act of using a good or product. Satisfaction may only be temporary. |
| Money is Convenient | Easy to carry and use |
| $ is generally acceptable | Everyone is willing to take money in exchange for goods and services because they too will be able to use or save it |
| $ is durable | Money last for a long time and is not easily destroyed |
| $ is cheap to produce | coins are much less expensive to make in comparison to the practice of mining for precious metals |