The Way That a Society Uses to Allocate Resources to Satisfy

question 58

Multiple Choice

The way that a society uses to allocate resources to satisfy human wants is called

• A) an economic system.
• B) an assumption.
• C) realism.
• D) a physical science.

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Definitions:

Law of Heredity

Describes the principles guiding how traits are passed from parents to offspring, traditionally referenced in the context of genetics and biological inheritance.

Uniformitarianism

The geological principle suggesting that the same processes and natural laws that operate in the universe now have always operated in the past.

Natural Selection

A fundamental mechanism of evolution, where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Catastrophism

The theory that the Earth has been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope, contrasting with uniformitarianism which emphasizes gradual changes.