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7th grade Traditional, command, market and mixed economies worksheet

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Traditional, command, market and mixed economies

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Circle the best answer.

1.
In Esme's table, what does the question "Who gets it?" ask?
- Which workers and tools to use
- How goods are shared out
- Who owns the land under a farm
- Which goods and services to produce first
2.
Which question asks which workers and tools to use, Jun asks?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Who gets the goods at the end?
- How to make it?
- What to make, and in what amount?
- Where is the nearest market?
3.
How many questions does each economy answer, by the table, Kira asks?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Three
- One question, about prices alone
- Five questions
- Ten questions
4.
Luz reads the words economic system. What is an economic system?
Use the picture in question 1.
- A way to decide what is made
- A kind of money
- A map of the world's trade routes
- A single shop that sells many kinds of goods
5.
Milo reads the word custom. What is a custom?
Use the picture in question 1.
- A long-followed way of doing things
- A price set by buyers and sellers
- A new rule written last week by a planner
- A tax on goods
6.
What does "produce" mean in the table, Noah asks?
Use the picture in question 1.
- To share goods with a family
- To make goods or services
- To buy goods from another country
- To set a price
7.
Pia's chain has a blank: what guides the work in a traditional economy?
- A bank in another city
- Custom and tradition
- Prices that rise and fall with supply and demand
- A central plan with production targets
8.
Ren's chain has a blank: what do people make in a traditional economy?
- Nothing
- Whatever a central plan sets for the year
- What their families long made
- Whatever brings the highest price this week
9.
What does the note say about traditional economies today, Ari asks?
- They are the same as command economies
- Parts of them carry on
- They now set prices by supply and demand alone
- They have vanished from the world for good
10.
Bo's friend says a traditional economy answers none of the three questions. Which reply fits?
Use the picture in question 9.
- Agree: a plan answers them instead
- Disagree: custom answers them
- Agree: traditional economies ask no questions
- Disagree: prices answer them

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Traditional, command, market and mixed economies. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

I can name the three questions every economy answers, and explain how custom answers them in a traditional economy.
I can compare who mainly decides in market and command economies, without judging either.
I can sort three made-up towns into mixed, command and traditional, and write neutral sentences about economic systems.

Standard: D2.Eco.1.6-8 (partial)

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