Vocabulary
Types of Economies
Free Enterprise System
Consumers & Producers
Government & Taxes
100

A person who buys and uses goods or services

What is a consumer?

100

An economy where the government controls production and prices 

What is a command economy?

100

People are free to start businesses and own property in this system

What is the free enterprise system?

100

What does a consumer do?

What is buy and use goods or services?

100

How does the government pay for goods and services it produces?

What is through taxes?

200

A person or business that makes or grows goods or services 

What is a producer?

200

An economy in which people freely buy and sell goods and services

What is a market economy?

200

What is a key benefit of owning private property?

What is it allows people to control their own things and make decisions?

200

What does a producer do?

What is grow or make goods to sell?

200

Name one service the government provides using tax money

What is schools, roads, police, or fire departments?

300

To take part in or include

What does involve mean?

300

Who makes economic decisions in a market economy? 

Who are individual buyers and sellers?

300

True or False: Everyone in a free enterprise system must follow government orders when making business choices

What is false?

300

What role do consumers and producers play in the economy?

What is they decide what to buy, which affects what producers make?

300

True or False: In a market economy, the government controls all businesses

What is false?

400

One single person

What is an individual?

400

Who makes economic decisions in a command economy?

Who is the government?

400

True or False: People can own private businesses in a free enterprise system

What is true?

400

How are consumers and producers connected?

What is producers make things for consumers to buy?

400

What is a sector of the economy that affects you daily?

What is food, clothing, transportation, etc..?

500

Something owned by a person, not the government 

What is private property?

500

Which economy gives more choices to consumers and why?

What is a market economy, because competition gives more options?

500

What is one characteristic of a free enterprise system?

What is people can choose jobs and start businesses?

500
Can someone be both a consumer and a producer? How?

What is yes, a person can make goods and also buy goods from others?

500

Why does the government collect taxes? 

What is to provide public good and services to people?