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Economics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anything you buy that you can hold or touch | Goods |
| An activity you pay someone to do for you | Services |
| Things like food, water, clothing, and shelter that you can’t survive without | Needs |
| Things we like to have, but aren’t necessary to survive | Wants |
| The thing that you give up when you buy something | Opportunity cost |
| A person who buys a good or uses a service | Consumer |
| A Person who makes a good or provides a service | Producer |
| Something used to produce goods and services | Resource |
| Things made by nature that people can use to create a product | Natural resources |
| The people needed to produce goods and services | Human resources |
| Goods that are used to make other goods or to provide services | Capital resources |
| Exchanging one good or service for something else | Trade |
| Not having enough of something | Scarcity |
| To trade without using money | Barter |
| Send goods and services to other countries | Export |
| Bring in goods and services from other countries | Import |
| Making one kind of good or providing one kind of service | Specialization |
| Depending on others to produce things you need | Inter dependence |
| What is the difference between needs and wants | The difference between needs and wants is needs are something you have to have to survive and wants you would like to have but don’t need them to live |
| Give examples of needs and wants | Needs: food Wants: car |
| A person who buys something in a store | Consumer |
| Eggs and butter | Natural resources |
| Chef and baker | Human Resources |
| Oven, spoon and mixer | Capital resources |