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Grade 6 Economics and Resources Practice Test

Build Grade 6 Social Studies skills with five 10-question practice tests on scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, opportunity cost, budgeting, economic systems, and sustainability.

Economics and Resources Practice Tests

These Grade 6 Social Studies practice tests help students explain how people and societies make choices when resources are limited. Students study scarcity, needs, wants, opportunity cost, natural and human resources, capital, production, consumption, specialization, trade, markets, supply, demand, incentives, budgets, economic systems, conservation, and sustainability.

Skills covered

  • Explaining scarcity, needs, wants, trade-offs, opportunity cost, and economic choices
  • Identifying land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship, natural resources, goods, services, producers, and consumers
  • Understanding productivity, specialization, division of labor, technology, trade, comparative advantage, and markets
  • Explaining incentives, demand, supply, competition, regulation, prices, and consumer choices
  • Comparing renewable and nonrenewable resources, conservation, pollution, and sustainability
  • Understanding budgets, saving, market economies, command economies, and mixed economies

How to use these practice tests

First identify the limited resource, choice, producer, consumer, or market relationship described in the question. Then ask what is being given up, how incentives affect decisions, and whether the resource can be renewed. For economic systems and sustainability questions, compare who makes decisions, how resources are allocated, and what effects may continue into the future.

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Grade 6 Economics and Resources Practice Tests

A 10-question Grade 6 Social Studies practice test on scarcity, needs, wants, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, opportunity cost, budgeting, economic systems, and sustainability.

Identify the economic concept in each question, compare limited resources with wants, and use the evidence about choices, production, trade, markets, or sustainability to select the best answer.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a natural resource?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A material or feature from nature that people can use.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Land, water, forests, minerals, sunlight, and fossil fuels are natural resources.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Land, water, forests, minerals, sunlight, and fossil fuels are natural resources.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a human resource?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is The knowledge, skills, effort, and labor people provide.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Human resources include physical work, education, skills, creativity, and professional knowledge.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Human resources include physical work, education, skills, creativity, and professional knowledge.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a capital resource?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is A tool, machine, building, or technology used to produce goods or services.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Capital resources are made by people and help workers produce other goods or services.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Capital resources are made by people and help workers produce other goods or services.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Which is an example of land as a factor of production?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is A field used to grow crops.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: In economics, land includes natural resources and the physical space used in production.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

In economics, land includes natural resources and the physical space used in production.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

Which is an example of labor?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A nurse providing care to patients.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Labor is the human effort, time, skill, and knowledge used to produce goods or services.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Labor is the human effort, time, skill, and knowledge used to produce goods or services.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

Which is an example of capital?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is A tractor used by a farmer.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: A tractor is a produced tool used to make agricultural production more efficient.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

A tractor is a produced tool used to make agricultural production more efficient.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

What is entrepreneurship?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Organizing resources, taking risks, and creating or managing a business or product.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Entrepreneurs combine land, labor, capital, and ideas while accepting the risk of a business decision.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Entrepreneurs combine land, labor, capital, and ideas while accepting the risk of a business decision.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

Why are resources sometimes called factors of production?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is They are inputs used to create goods and services..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship contribute to the production process.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship contribute to the production process.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

Which set includes a natural, human, and capital resource?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Water, a teacher, and a computer.

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Water is natural, a teacher provides labor, and a computer is a capital resource.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Water is natural, a teacher provides labor, and a computer is a capital resource.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Why can education increase human resources?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Education can improve knowledge, skills, productivity, and the ability to provide services..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question asks about scarcity, resources, production, consumption, trade, markets, money, or sustainability.
  2. Use the evidence: Education develops human capital by improving skills and knowledge used in work and decision-making.
  3. Check the relationship: Connect choices, incentives, resources, prices, production, and environmental effects to confirm the answer.

Education develops human capital by improving skills and knowledge used in work and decision-making.

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Frequently asked questions about Grade 6 Economics and Resources

What topics are covered?

The page covers scarcity, needs, wants, opportunity cost, resources, production, consumption, goods, services, specialization, trade, markets, supply, demand, incentives, budgets, saving, economic systems, conservation, pollution, and sustainability.

How should students analyze an economics question?

Identify the scarce resource or choice, determine who produces or consumes, compare costs and benefits, and consider how incentives, trade, markets, or environmental effects influence the result.

How many questions are on this page?

The page includes five mini tests with 10 questions each, for 50 Grade 6 Economics and Resources questions in total.