Because Economics Is Based on the Realization That People Want

question 11

True/False

Because economics is based on the realization that people want more than the resources can provide, social studies teachers must help students recognize that scarcity exists.

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Definitions:

Indirect Benefits

Advantages that do not directly influence an organism's survival or reproduction but may enhance the survival or reproductive success of its relatives or offspring.

Sexual Selection

A type of natural selection that arises through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex.

Reproductive Success

The passing of genes onto the next generation in a way that they too can pass those genes on, a crucial component of natural selection and evolutionary fitness.

Direct Food Benefit

Direct Food Benefit refers to the immediate advantage obtained from consuming food, including nutritional intake necessary for survival, growth, and health maintenance.