Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:10. What is another name for service industries?
A. Primary industry
B. Secondary industry
C. Tertiary industry
11. What term refers to the basic energy and equipment needs of all industries-utilities,
transportation,and communication?
A. Superstructure
B. Infrastructure
C. Understructure
D. Ultrastructure
12. What term refers to all of the most basic industries (interacting with the environment and
extracting its resources)?
A. Primary industry
B. Secondary industry
C. Tertiary industry
D. Service industry
13. Which industry is when businesses take raw materials and change them into useful forms.
A. Primary industry
B. Secondary industry
C. Tertiary industry
14. What is the study of the process by which individuals and countries make choices about the use
of their resources?
A. Ecology
B. Ergonomics
C. Economics
D. Geometrics
15. What is the most common method of measuring a country's wealth?
A. GAP (Great American Product)
B. GBP (Great Big Product)
C. GCP (Greater Country Product)
D. GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
16. What are taxes on goods brought into the country from another country?
A. Export charges
B. Trade charges
C. Tariffs
D. Toll charges
17. Farmers who make their own clothing, furniture, and homes and grow just enough food to meet
their own families' needs are called...
A. cash crop farmers
B. primary farmers
C. subsistence farmers
D. commercial farmers
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Transcribed Image Text:18. Products that generally last less than a year are...
durable goods
A. nondurable goods
B. natural goods
C. tertiary goods
19. Copper, lead, iron, and aluminum are useful when combined with other metals to form...
A. heavy metals
B. alloys
C. precious metals
D. lotions
20. All of the following are common metals except...
A. copper
B. iron
C. aluminum
D. silver
21. Cultivation or farming of seafood in a controlled, artificial environment is called...
A. aquaculture
B. agriculture
C. sea farming
D. forestry
22. A ban on importing or exporting selected products or trading with a particular country is called...
A. an embargo
B. an import
C. an export
D. a monopoly
23. What is the application of science to industry?
A. scientology
B. economics
C. technology
D. industrial revolution
24. What term describes countries characterized by their large population and low per capita GDP?
A. underachieving country
B. third world country
C. developed country
D. developing country
25. System where businesses freely compete in the marketplace for buyers with little interference
from the government.
A. Capitalism
B. Socialism
26. System where the government owns and controls the major industries and promises to make
production decisions for the welfare of society.
A. Capitalism
B. Socialism
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