1. Economics Review

2. Needs & Wants Examples: Examples Food Shelter Clothing Videogames
What is a need?
What is a want?
Examples:
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Examples
Videogames
Ice cream
Toys

3. Types of Resources What are the different types of resources?
Natural Resources
Materials that come from nature
Capital Resources
Goods made by people and used to produce other goods/services
Human Resources
People working to produce goods and services

4. Natural Resource
Human Resource
Capital Resource

5. Producers & Consumers What is a producer?
People who use resources to make goods and/or provide services
What is the name for people who buy or use the goods and services?
consumers

6. Economic Scarcity What is economic scarcity?
When there isn’t enough of something to go around
What are some examples of economic scarcity?

7. Goods & Services What is a good? What is a service?
Things people make or use to satisfy needs and wants
What is a service?
Activities that satisfy needs and wants
How are goods and services similar? How are they different?

8. Some Examples of Goods and Services

9. Economic Interdependence
Interdependence is when two or more people depend on each other for goods and services
Can you think of examples?

10. Economic Specialization
What is specialization?
Focusing on one product or service
What are some examples of specialization?

11. Specialization in the past
Can you think of examples of specialization in the past?

12. Interdependence in the Past
Can you think of examples of Interdependence in the past?

13. Specialization and Interdependence in Virginia
What do we specialize in in Virginia?
Shipbuilding
What is an example of interdependence between Virginia and other countries?
Other countries depend on Virginia for coal, and we depend on them for oil

14. Opportunity Cost Opportunity cost is…
The “next best” choice that you give up when you make a decision
When choosing between pizza, chips, and ice cream…
If you like all three items, and you rank them as
#1 – pizza, #2 - ice cream, #3 – chips
Your first choice is :
pizza
Your opportunity cost is :
ice cream

15. Economic Choice
The choice or decision among alternatives or possibilities
“alternatives” are all the options or possibilities you have to choose from