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Consider the following: A country can make ploughs and loaves of bread. In production possibility C, the country can make 2 ploughs and 12, 000 loaves of bread, and in production possibility D a country can make 3 ploughs and 9000 loaves of bread. What is the opportunity cost of the country making 3 ploughs instead of 2 ploughs?
What is 3000 loaves of bread?
The entire productive land of mainland Britain is needed to ________ London.
What is feed?
What is Canada and mixed-market?
In which country are children told to remember that even the birds and mice can hear you whisper and what is meant by this?
What is North Korea and what is being careful what you say about the government and being careful what you say and to whom as you never know who is listening and reporting. What is being punished for speaking out against the government.
The science of scarcity and choice.
What is economics?
Cobalt, copper, tungsten and indium.
What are scarce resources used in iPhone manufacturing?
In the Megacities documentary we viewed, the host Andrew Marr compared this type of transportation in London to if "...you were given 1 pair of trousers for life at the age of 12 and then you get bigger and bigger until it's a painful squeeze..."
What is the tube? What is the London Underground? What is the subway?
This economic goal of Canada conflicts with Economic Growth.
What is Environmental Stewardship?
Political system practiced in Finland & Denmark.
What is socialism?
Poor agriculture practices, along with over population and higher calorie diets are just some of the reasons why this resource is more scarce than we'd like to think.
What is water?
These take a millennia to fill back up, and is why some people think our mindset around their used should be compared to as a "savings account".
What is groundwater deposits or what are aquifers?
A point beyond the production possibility curve frontier is ______________.
What is unattainable? What is unattainable currently? What is currently unattainable with current resources and technology?
Very few _______ economic systems exist today.
What is pure?
Definition of songbun.
What is the North Korean communist party's system of ranking it's citizens based on supposed loyalty to the regime.
On Friday night I can prepare a test for Economics, I can go to the pool and swim laps, or I can go see the movie Dune at the IMAX. Debating the three, my order of preference is:
1. Dune
2. Pool
3. Economics Test
I go see Dune. What is my opportunity cost?
What is the pool?
What to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce?
Using all methods of transportation, ex: bikes, walking, busses, subways, trains, cars, as well as investing in highways, streets, biking lanes and walking lanes.
What is the best way to feel with transportation in a megacity?
What is reduced public debt?
Propaganda is heavily used in this political system to promote the greatness of the uncontested ruler and state.
What is fascism?
In which country is the social credit system practiced?
What is China?
This solution to water scarcity sounds functional in theory, but in practice costs lots of money and uses a lot of energy.
What is desalination of water?
One way London is preventing oil from clogging the sewer system.
What is using biodiesel in cabs?
What is Traditional?
Hong Kong, the United States, Singapore and New Zealand are examples of countries that practice this type of political system.
What is Capitalism?
Free education, democratic government free from corruption, free healthcare, long parental leave, paid yearly vacation time, are just some of the ways some Scandinavian countries practice what is known as the ________ __________.