This or That
This is the difference between something you must have to survive and something that just makes life more enjoyable.
What is the difference between a need and a want?
This sport had the highest high school participation rate in 2024–25, with 513,808 students.
What is track and field (outdoor)?
Trading your lunch snack for a friend’s drink is an example of this.
What is voluntary exchange?
This cartoon followed three super-powered sisters created with sugar, spice, and everything nice.
What are The Powerpuff Girls?
This economic concept means focusing on one skill or job to become very good at it.
What is specialization?
Food is this, but fast food is this.
What is a need and what is a want?
This rapper signed on as ESPN’s first female music curator for Monday Night Football.
Who is Saweetie?
Both sides in a voluntary exchange benefit because they both feel they get more of this.
What is value?
Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, and the gang showed life from a baby’s perspective.
What is Rugrats?
You are stranded on a remote island. One person fishes and another gathers coconuts. This concept is demonstrated.
What is specialization?
You’re stranded on an island. These two things are examples of needs.
What are food and shelter
He broke a 20-year NFL record by playing both offense and defense in his debut with the Jaguars.
Who is Travis Hunter?
This kind of exchange is different because one side does not agree willingly.
What is forced exchange?
This cartoon dog often yelled “Zoinks!” while solving mysteries with Shaggy and the gang
What is Scooby-Doo?
If you spend time learning a new skill while already specialized in another, you face this cost.
What is opportunity cost?
These differ from person to person, based on culture, opinion, and experience.
What are wants?
This athlete became the fastest player in MLS history to reach 40 goal contributions—21 goals and 19 assists—in just 26 games.
Who is Lionel Messi?
When two people willingly trade items or services, this occurs.
What is voluntary exchange?
A family of superheroes, including Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy, starred in this silly spinoff.
What is Teen Titans Go!?
Doing one thing really well helps increase this, meaning more gets done with fewer resources.
What is efficiency?
Advertising and peer pressure can influence this, making you think you need something you don’t.
What are wants?
The 2025 All-Star Game in San Francisco featured Shaq’s OGs winning the mini-tournament and this veteran guard named MVP.
Who is Stephen Curry?
This is why voluntary exchange helps ease scarcity.
What is both sides gaining more of what they need or want?
This 2010s Disney Channel show followed stepbrothers building outrageous inventions while their sister tried to bust them.
What is Phineas and Ferb?
This process involves weighing costs and benefits before making a choice.
What is economic reasoning?