Economic Concepts
NC Resources
Trends in the Economy
Measuring the Economy
Personal Finance

100

Tangible items that people want to buy.

What are goods?

100

An farm animal that NC is famous for producing.

What is a turkey or a pig?

100

The development of an increasingly worldwide economy.

What is globalization?

100

A continual increase in the price of a good or service.

What is inflation?

100

"Bouncing a check" is a common way of describing this action.

What is an overdraft?

200

Work that people perform for money.

What are services?

200

The furniture business is big in NC because of the abundance of ...

What are forests?

200

The Big Three businesses in NC that are now declining.

What are tobacco, furniture, and textiles?

200

This country has the second highest GDP next to the US.

Who is China?

200

A low risk investment wherein you allow a bank to keep your money for a time in exchange for interest paid.

What is a Certificate of Deposit? (CD)

300

A person who satisfies a need or want by purchasing a good or service.

What is a consumer?

300

Calabash, NC is famous for....

What is seafood?

300

The number of people who work in farming in NC has increased/decreased.

What is decreased?

300

The total value of goods and services in a country.

What is Gross Domestic Product? (GDP)

300

When stocks are combined into an account and managed for an investor.

What is a mutual fund?

400

A person who uses resources to provide goods or services.

Who is a produces?

400

Feldspar, granite, and phosphate are three examples of _____________ that are plentiful in NC.

What are minerals?

400

Places with large numbers of immigrants see improvement/decline in their economies.

What is improvement?

400

This economic indicator measures fluctuations in prices.

What is the Consumer Price Index? (CPI)

400

An investment wherein someone loans money to a government in return for interest paid.

What is a bond?

500

A limited supply of a certain resource or product.

What is scarcity?

500

Since NC has the most universities in the US, businesses consider that we have great ____________ resources.

What are human resources?

500

The period of US history where there was a great economic downturn was called...

What is the Great Recession?

500

The number of Americans who do not work and who are not looking for a job.

What is 7 million?

500

If you pay off credit debt in a timely manner, you increase and improve this.

What is a credit score?