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economic vocabs:)
7th grade
Question | Answer |
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economics | the study of how the people or countries manage (choose to use) their limited resources by the producing exchange and using goods and services |
human capital | labor that is done by the people |
capitol | the machine, tools, factories, land, and technology |
natural resources | raw material used and to make products or "gift of nature" |
renewable resources | can be used and replaced over a short period of time |
nonrenewable resources | cannot be replaced over a short period of time |
traditional economy | social and culture decides the goods and services that will be used |
command economy | governments makes all of the deciding s |
market economy | when the people decides on the goods and services |
mixed economy | people and the governments share the role |
import | goods brought into the country |
export | good brought out of the country |
currency | money |
voluntary trade | voluntarily purchasing something where both groups |
specialization | the developed of skills in a particular type work, such as trading |
entrepreneur | someone who organizes, manages, and assume, business risk by bringing together natural |
trade barriers | any law or practice that a government use to limited free trade between |
tariff | tax |
embargo | cutting off the import and export in that country |
quota | limiting the amount of products |
GDP | gross domestic products- the amount of product and services produced in one country |
scarcity | the amount of that product is decreasing, which lead to higher prices |
surplus | the amount of that product is increasing, which lead to increasing in prices |
OPEC | the organization of the petroleum exporting country-sets the price for oil and the amount of oil produced |
commodity | a valuable or useful in economics goods |