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Bell-Ringer 1-26-09. Complete #1 on page 7. Number your definitions (18). Bell-Ringer 1-27-09. Use the Chart to provide examples of various natural resources, human resources, and capital resources Chapter 1; Section 1 pages 3-7. Bell-Ringer 1-28-09. What is Economics?
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Bell-Ringer 1-26-09 • Complete #1 on page 7. Number your definitions (18)
Bell-Ringer 1-27-09 • Use the Chart to provide examples of various natural resources, human resources, and capital resources • Chapter 1; Section 1 pages 3-7
Bell-Ringer 1-28-09 • What is Economics? • What are the factors of production? • What is the goal of entrepreneurship? • Chp 1; Sect 1
Bell-Ringer 1-29-09 • Why is scarcity a basic problem of economics? • What are the three economic questions that all economic systems address; explain them. • Chp 1; Sect 2
Bell-Ringer 1-30-09 • What is opportunity cost? • What is the Production Possibility Curve? • Chapter 1; Section 3
Bell-Ringer 2-2-09 • What two assumptions determine the production possibilities curve (PPC)? • What condition is represented by a point lying inside, or below, the PPC? • Chp 1; Sect 3
Bell-Ringer 2-3-09 • What are the difficulties associated with barter? • Why is self-sufficiency so rare? • What are the economic benefits of interdependence? • Chp 1; Sect 4 (15-18)
Bell-Ringer 2-4-09 • What are the three functions of money? Page 16 • What is value? (17) • What is utility? (17)
Bell-Ringer 2-9-09 • What are the 3 basic economic questions answered in traditional, command, and market economies? • What are the roles of self-interest and incentives in a market economy? • Chp 2; Sect 1
Bell-Ringer 2-11-09 • What are the five main features of the free-enterprise system in the United States? (29) • Identify and explain the two markets of the circular flow model. (34)
Bell-Ringer 2-17-09 • Complete # 2 “Identifying Concepts” page 40
Bell-Ringer 2-18-09 • How do nations decide how to use scarce resources? • Why do economic goals sometimes conflict? • Chp 2; Sect 3
Bell – Ringer 2 – 23 - 09 • How does demand differ from quantity demanded? • What does the law of demand state? • What do demand schedules and demand curves illustrate? • Chapter 3 section 1
Bell – Ringer 2 – 24 - 09 • What does it mean for a product’s demand to shift? • What factors can shift demand for a product? • How do substitute goods differ from complementary goods? • Chapter 3 section 2
Bell – Ringer 2 – 25 - 09 • What is demand elasticity? • What is the difference between elastic and inelastic demand? • How is demand elasticity measured? Chapter 3 section 3 Page 63-68
Bell – Ringer 2 – 27 - 09 • What is the difference between supply and quantity supplied? • What does the law of supply sate? • What do supply schedules and supply curves illustrate? • What is supply elasticity? Chapter 4 section 1 page 73-78