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SS- Chapter 2 Terms
Economics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| goods | items you can see, like pencils or cars |
| services | work that people do, like cutting hair or fixing cars |
| consumer | user of goods & services |
| local | made near where they were sold |
| producers | makers of goods |
| import | to bring goods from another country |
| export | to send out goods out to another country |
| purchase | to buy with money |
| natural resources | resource made from nature |
| human resources | people's talents and skills |
| capital resources | human-made items used to make other goods or provide services |
| technology | use of science to solve problems and make things work better |
| trade-off | when you give up on thing for another thing |
| cost | the price needed to get something else |
| opportunity cost | what you have to give up to have something else |
| benefit | useful result |
| option | choices that can be made |
| need | something you must have to live |
| want | something you would like to have but do not need |
| invest | to spend now in the hope of future reward |
| human capital | your skills, knowledge, and experiences |
| fund | to pay for |
| occupation | a job or work |