Factors of Production
Trade Barriers
Voluntary Trade
Economic Systems
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100

This factor of production describes things like oil, water, and land

What is natural resources?

100

The US government limits the amount of "Hello Kitty" sledgehammers coming into the US from Japan with this type of trade barrier.

What is a quota?

100

OPEC trades in this natural resource

What is oil?

100

In this economic system the people produce what they have always produced

What is traditional economy?

100

Between Market and Command economies, this system is more efficient

What is market economy?

200

The certification to operate a forklift falls under this category?

What is Human Capital?

200

The US and United Nations put this type of trade barrier on Iraq, to punish Saddam Hussein for invading Kuwait and committing crimes against his people.  It stopped him from trading oil to rebuild his economy and military.

What is an embargo?

200

Israel specializes in trading these (Name two)

Will accept diamonds, technology, agriculture

200

In this economic system, countries decide what to produce based off supply and demand

What is a market economy

200

These are the three economic questions that each country must answer:

What to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.

300

Ford invests in new machinery for one of their auto plants which is this type of factor of production

What is Capital Goods?

300

This trade barrier can be used to protect domestic industry from cheap foreign made goods by putting a tax on them as they enter the country.

What is a tariff?

300

OPEC stands for this:

What is Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

300

In this economic system, countries decide what to produce based off government production quota's. 

What is command?

300

This concept allows me to sell rocket-assisted sledgehammers all over the world

What is currency exchange?

400

A factory building is full of machines, operated by workers certified in operating heavy machines, equipped with tools, sitting on land.  

This is the Human Capital in that scenario

What is "workers certified in operating heavy machines?"

400

Describe the trade barrier:

Europe tells Russia that they will only import a certain amount of petroleum from them, as a sanction (penalty) for them invading the Ukraine.

What is a quota?

400

Countries in the Middle East with the highest gross domestic product are most likely to be those who invest in:

What is oil and petroleum?

400

Israel leans this way on the mixed economic continuum

What is market economy?

400

This term describes the number of adults who can read and write

What is literacy rate?

500

This factor of production is lacking in many command-leaning economies, and is the reason why market-leaning economies are more efficient.

What is entrepreneurship?

500

Describe the two trade barriers:

The United Nations decides to sanction Iran for supporting terrorism by limiting their oil exports to an amount that will allow them to purchase food, and banning the sale of all military equipment to them.

What are quota and embargo?

500

This is one thing that Turkey specializes in producing:

(Accept:  Textiles/apparel, manufacturing, automobiles, etc.)

500

This economic system leads to the least amount of surplus goods being produced.

What is traditional economy?

500

This describes how OPEC controls oil prices

Raising or lowering production quota's of oil

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