Economic Basics
Economic Vocabulary
Mr. Manzo Trivia
Business Cycles
Economic Indicators
100

This is an economic term for doing work...

What is Labor? 

100

A country that does not meet the basic needs of the people living there ...

What is an Underdeveloped Country?

100

Mr. Manzo was born in this Autumn month...

What is October?

100

A business cycle is the growth and decline of this economic indicator...

What is Real GDP?

100

The age to which an average person living in that country will live to...

What is Life Expectancy?

200

An economic industry that produces food and other valuable cash crops

What is Agriculture? 

200

A country that meets the basic needs of its people and is able to innovate...

What is a Developed Country?

200

Mr. Manzo Originally comes from this city of Angels...

What is Los Angeles?

200

During this phase of a business cycle, real GDP grows..

What is Expansion/Prosperity?

200

The percentage of the population (who are over 15) that are able to read and write...

What is Literacy Rate?

300

This P-E-G-S determines the natural resources available to a country...

What is Geography?

300

A type of economic system where businesses are free from the government and primarily respond to consumer demand... 

What is a Capitalist Economic System?

300

Mr. Manzo's class last year was in this grade level...

What is second grade?

300

This phase of a business cycle describes a great decline in real GDP growth, and has only happened once before in American history...

What is a Depression?

300

The infant mortality rate measures the rate at which infants in the country pass away as a number per this many babies born...

What is 1000?

400

We live in a world where there is not enough economic resources for everyone, we live in a world of...

What is Scarcity?

400

An economic system where the government owns and controls only the essential industries in that country, while the other industries remain free...

What is a Socialist Economic System?

400

Mr. Manzo's Family comes form this state in Mexico...

What is Michoacán?

400

this phase of a business cycle follows a Recession or Depression, as Real GDP begins to grow once again...

What is Recovery?

400

The total value of goods and services produced in a country in a given year, divided by the total population of that country...

What is GDP per Capita?

500

The word "Economics" comes from the Greek word "Oikonomia" meaning this...

What is Management of the Household?

500

This economic system is completely planned and operated by the government...

What is a Communist Economic System?

500

Mr. Manzo taught at an elementary school in Dallas for two years, named after this historical figure. He was a major leader for Civil Rights and helped change labor laws for immigrants working in the agriculture industry...

Who is Cesar Chavez? 

500

The economy was growing at great growth rate. Soon, the Real GDP growth rate began to decline and Unemployment increased. This phase of the business cycle lasted less than one year. 

What is Recession? 

500

In order to be considered an unemployed worker, a person must not be employed and must also be 

What is looking for employment?