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AP Macro Unit 1
Unit One Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Opportunity Costs | The amount of goods or services that must be sacrificed to obtain one unit of a specific good or service |
| Macroeconomics | Examines economy as a whole or its basic subdivision or aggregates |
| Aggregate | Collection of specific economic units treated as if they were one unit |
| Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) | A curve depicting all maximum output possibilities for two or more goods given a set of inputs (resources, labor, etc.) |
| Circular Flow Model | a summary of the operation of a market economy, that is the flow between production factors (firms) and households. |
| Market | All situations that link potential buyers with potential sellers |
| Demand | Consumers are willing and able to purchase at each of a series of possible prices during a specified period of time |
| Demand Curve | A curve that shows various amounts of a product that consumers are willing and able to purchase at each of a series of possible prices during a specified period of time |
| Determinants of Demand | Tastes,number of buyers, income, price of related goods, substitute goods, complementary goods, unrelated goods, and price expectations |
| Supply | The amounts of a product that producers are willing and able to make available for sale at each of a series of possible prices during a specific period |
| Supply Curve | A curve that shows the amounts of a product that producers are willing and able to make available for sale at each of a series of possible prices during a specific period |
| Determinants of Supply | Resource prices,technology,taxes/subsidies,prices of other goods,price expectations,and the number of sellers in a market |
| Equilibrium | Point in the graph wher the price and quantity are a rest |