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key terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital Goods | all of the manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods & services |
| Consumer goods & services | all the goods & services that are purchased & actually used by the ultimate consumer |
| Consumption | the process or activity of using goods & services |
| Demand | reflects the quantities that consumers are willing & able to buy at various possible prices during the same period |
| Distribution | the process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners & producers |
| Economic Goods | physical objects that are useful, scarce, & transferable & which satisfy economic wants |
| Economic Resources | the human & natural resources & capital goods used to produce goods & services |
| Economic Services | productive acts that are useful, scarce, & transferable & which satisfy economic wants |
| Economic Want | a desire for something that can only be satisfied by spending money |
| Economics | the study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources |
| Elastic Demand | a form of demand fir products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand |
| Elasticity | an indication of how changes in price will affect changes in the amounts demanded & supplied |
| Equilibrium | the pint at which the quantity demanded |
| Excess Demand | the situation that exists when demand is greater than supply |
| Excess Supply | the situation that exists when supply is greater than demand |
| Exchange | the economic process of trading one good/ service for another |
| Factors of production | productive resources; human & natural resources & capital goods |
| Human resources | people who work to produce goods & services |
| Industrial goods & services | products purchased by producers for resale, to make other goods & services, &/or in business operations |
| Inelastic demand | a form of demand in which changes in price do not affect demand |
| Law of demand | economic principle which states that the the quantity of a good or service that people will buy varies inversely with the price of the good or service. |
| Law of supply | economic principle which states that the quantity of a good or service will be affected for sale varies in direct relation to its price |
| Law of supply & demand | economic principle which states that the supply of a good or service will increase when demand is great & decrease when demand is low |
| Natural resources | items found in nature that are used to produce goods & services |
| Need | something required or essential that is lacking |
| Noneconomic want | desire for things that can be obtained without spending money |
| Opportunity cost | the benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than another |
| Price | the amount of money paid for a good, service, or resource |
| Production | the economic process or activity of producing goods & services |
| Scarcity | a condition resulting from the gap between limited & unlimited wants for goods & services |
| Supply | the quantity of a good or service that sellers are able & willing to offer for sale at a specified price in a given time period |
| Trade off | giving up all or a part of one thing in order to get something else |
| Want | a desire for something that is not required |