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Tong AP Micro Wilson
Tong AP Microeconomics Summer Evan Wilson
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scarcity | An economic problem in which human wants and needs exceed the amount of resources available for use. |
| Opportunity Cost | Opportunity Cost is essentially the benefit that is given up when someone chooses something over another. |
| Capital | A form of wealth that can be used to produce, sell, and buy goods and services. |
| Supply | The amount of a good available for distribution to consumers. |
| Demand | The desire felt by a consumer to obtain a particular good or service. |
| Market | A situation in which multiple parties compete with one another to distribute a particular good or service to an audience of consumers. |
| Competition | A situation between participants in a market that results from each individual party attempting to sell their own good or service over another party's. |
| Needs | Something that is an absolute necessity for a consumer to live a healthy life. |
| Wants | Anything that is not a necessity for a healthy life, but is still desired by a consumer. |
| Goods | A tangible product that can be used to satisfy the wants or needs of a consumer. |
| Services | The intangible equivalent of a good. |
| Consumers | Something that attempts to satisfy their wants and needs by buying goods and services and participating in an economic system. |
| Budget | A financial plan that person makes in order to distribute their income so that they can satisfy all of the needs and as many wants as possible. |
| Profit | The amount of money earned by a distributor after the total cost of production is subtracted from the total revenue. |
| Cost | An amount that has to be paid or given up in order to get something. |