Vocabulary
The Economic Frontier
Go With the Circular Flow
Economic Systems
Factors of Production
100

The condition of having unlimited wants and limited resources

What is the problem of scarcity?

100

Anything OUTSIDE the productive possibilities curve is...

What is "impossible"?
100

Individuals give this to the government in exchange for public goods and services.

What are "taxes"?

100

The type of economic system employed by Indigenous communities creating traditional arts and crafts.

What is a traditional economy?
100

The work, time, skill, and expertise of human workers represents this factor of production.

What is labor?

200

A place or platform where completed goods and services are sold.

What is a product market? 

200

Any point INSIDE the Production Possibilities Curve is...

What is "inefficient"? 

200

The group that belongs at the center of the Circular Flow Chart. 

What is the government?

200

A lack of personal freedom and the production of low quality goods are both disadvantages of this political system.

What is a command economy?

200

This factor of production is the materials used by individuals and businesses to create other goods or services.

What is capital?

300

Breaking down tasks into smaller parts to make completing a process more efficient based on people's particular expertise.

What is specialization?

300
What is being measured on BOTH axes of the PPC

What is "quantity"?

300

Job fairs, land auctions, and hardware stores could all be examples of this type of market.

What is a resource market?

300

A lack of public goods and uncertainty due to change and competition are disadvantages of this economic system.

What is a market economy?

300

A business-owner provides this factor of production by taking a risk to start a business and build it up. 

What is entrepreneurship?

400

A person's experience, education, skills, time, and labor.

What is human capital?

400
What is needed in order to shift the ENTIRE production possibilities curve outward.

What is an increase in the 4 factors of production?

400
What businesses purchase from the resource market. 

What are the 4 factors of production? (Land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship.)

400

Socialism is an example of this type of economy.

What is a mixed economy?

400
What happens when all four factors come together.

What is production?

500

The measure of the amount of output produced by a given amount of inputs in a specific time period

What is productivity?

500

Any point ON the PPC represents...

What is "using resources at peak efficiency"? 

500

This part of the Circular Flow Model receives income from the resource market, and spends that income on consumer goods in the product market. 

What are individuals/households?

500

Private citizens owning or using the factors of production to create profit is an aspect of this economic system.

What is a market economy?

500

Types of goods like geographic landforms, oil, plants, animals, and other natural resources fall into this category of production factors.

What is land?

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