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Eco vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scarcity | Inadequate supply of resource (not enough) |
| Goods | Things or items we use that are produced. |
| Services | A job done for someone else. |
| Economy | The careful management of producing, distrubuting, and consuming wealth and resources. |
| Natural Resources | These are found in the environment. |
| Market | Anywhere goods are sold or traded. |
| Capital Resources | Goods used to make other goods or provide a service. |
| Wages | Amount paid to an individual for services provided. |
| Consumer | One who uses goods and services. |
| Labor Resource | People who work. |
| Economic System | System of organizing wealth and resources. |
| Traditional Economy | Decisions are made based on how things have been done in the past. |
| Command Economy | The government makes the economic decisions and owns most of the property. |
| Market Economy | Resouces are owned by private citizens and economic answers come from the citizens participating in the economy. |
| Productive Resources | Natural Resources, labor/human resources, and capital resources. |
| Renewable Resources | Resource that can be replenished naturally. |
| Non-Renewable Resources | Resources that can be depleted from the environment. |
| Other names for the market economy | Capitalism, free market system,laissez-faire. |