When the demand for a good or service is greater than the availability of the good or service.
This is having a limited quantity of resources to meet unlimited wants.
what is scarcity?
A blend of command, market, and traditional economies.
What is a mixed economy?
An economic system where all decisions are based on customs, traditions, and beliefs.
What is a traditional economy?
The direct trading of goods and services between people without the use of money
What is barter?
The average age that a person is predicted to live to when they're born.
What is life expectancy?
People or businesses that buy or consume products and services.
What is a consumer?
Something done in exchange for money
What are services?
Products that can be bought or sold
What are goods?
Refers to how many people want those goods and services.
What is demand?
Luca the sea monster enters a local race in order to earn enough money to buy what?
What is a Vespa?
People or businesses that make and manufacture raw materials into goods and services.
What is a producer?
The study of how people meet their needs and wants
What is economics?
The number of goods and services that are available.
What is supply?
Making a choice of what you want most. Giving up the next best alternative.
What is opportunity cost?
What is the natural resource?
What is the sun?
An economic system in which the government makes all the economic decisions and sets all the prices and wages
What is a command economy?
The Legend of the Ten Rings features what Marvel avenger?
Who is Shang-Chi
Goods brought into a country to be sold.
What is an import?
A reason or reward that motivates people to behave or do something in a certain way.
What is an incentive?
Name the 4 types of economic systems
What is
1) traditional economy
2) command economy
3) market economy
4) mixed economy
These resources are used to produce goods and services.
1. Land (natural resources)
2. Labor (human resources)
3. Capital (goods as a resource)
What are factors of production?
The economic system in which individuals/businesses decide what, how, and how much will be produced/sold
What is a market economy?
Economic Indicator:
The percent of people who can read and write.
What is literacy rate?
The process in which businesses begin to operate internationally
What is globalization?
Economic Indicator:
The total income of a country divided by the number of people living in that country.
What is GDP per capita?