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World History Exam Review
RHS Exam Review
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History
9th Grade
10/31/2007

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What are the resources used to make goods and services called?

Definition

Factors of Production

Term
What is economics?
Definition
The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices.
Term

Define Entrepreneurs.

Definition
People who take risks to combine the factors of production to create a business.
Term
Giving up one alternative for another is called a what?
Definition
Trade-off
Term
Thinking at the margin means deciding about what?
Definition

Using one more unit of resource.

Term

Efficiency

Definition
Using resources in such a way as to maximize the production of goods and services.
Term
A country's production possibilities with grow if it does what?
Definition

Increases in resources and technology.

Term
What are the three questions that an economy answers?
Definition
1. What goods and services should be produced?
2. How should these goods be produced?
3. Who consumes the goods and services?
Term

In traditional economy, economic questions are answered largely based on what?

Definition
habit, custom, ritual
Term
Competition and self-interest are two important factors in what?
Definition
market economy
Term

The former Soviet Union is an example of a communist country where the government does what?

Definition
Controls the economy
Term

Which countries have the most extreme example of a centrally planned economy?

Definition
North Korea
Term
According to the law of supply what happens?
Definition
Offers more of a good at a higher price
Term

Marginal Product

Definition
The change in output from adding one more worker.
Term

Marginal Cost

Definition
cost of producing one more unit of good
Term
If sellers expect the prove of a good to ride in the future, they will do what?
Definition
hold supply
Term
The most common form of business organization is the what?
Definition
sole proprieter
Term

One way a corporation can raise money is by what?

Definition
Selling bonds
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