Topic12: The Production Process Flashcards
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What is production?
Production is making, creating and producing goods or products that satisfy people’s needs and wants. 🍞
What’s a production process?
A series of things that need to happen in a certain order to produce a product. 📒➡️🖋➡️📖
What is an input?
All the things necessary for a production process to happen. 🌳 💧 ☀️
Name and define the three types of inputs.
Natural input: Comes from nature. 🌞 💧 🌲
Human input: The people who do the work needed in the process. Farmer…
Capital input: The tools, equipment and money made by people needed in the production process.
What is the output?
The resault of an economic process that uses inputs to produce a product or service for sale. 💳
What are resources?
Things we use to help us to do something.
What is the sustainable use of resources?
Using resources in a way that makes sure the resources will be available for future use. It means we use resources efficiently.
What’s economic growth?
When a country’s economy gets bigger 🔸🔶 and 💪.
Why is economic growth important?
As a country’s economy grows, the businesses in the country produce more products, make more money and provide more jobs.
It is measured in the value of the output produced in a year.
What is productivity?
The measure 📐 of how efficiently inputs have been used to create outputs in a time period. 🕓
Mention the relationships of productivity.
- Inputs: The number 🔢 and quality 🖥 of resources used.
- Time: How long it takes to produce a product. 🕰
- Output: The number🔢 and quality 💻 of products produced.
How can the productivity of natural resources be improved?
One of the natural resources that can be used more productively is land. 🚵🏾♀️
How can productivity of human resources be improved?
Some of the ways that people can be more productive in their jobs is when their work is planned better. 📝📈📉📊🗓
People can be more productive when all their basic needs are met and their properly educated or trained for their jobs. 💼⛑🎓
How can productivity of human-made resources be improved?
Materials can be used more productively when less material is needed and less waste is produced.
Machines can be used more productively when they’re improved and produce greater output in less time.
How can the number of outputs in a production process be increased when the inputs remain the same?
Increase the outputs.
What is the effect of productivity on economic growth?
Productivity leads to economic growth. When businesses increase their productivity, they produce more quality goods in less time.
Productivity is necessary for economic growth.
What other factor is important for economic growth?
All the factors that increase productivity. consider human and human-made inputs.
Human-made refers to the use of machines, materials and tools.
Human refers to the skills development to produce goods.
What is technology?
Technology is the inventions that make completing tasks easier.
Give examples of simple to complex technology.
Simple technology: Using tools like hoes ( the farming one you idiot) and a large knife in farming.
Complex Technology: Information and communication and machine. 🖥📱💻🖨
What is technology in production?
The methods, tools and machines used to help produce goods.
What is automate?
To make a system automatic so that a machine does the work.
How does technology increase productivity and economic growth?
It can make production processes more quicker ⚡️, simpler and more efficient. 👍
Information technology helps to find, use and store huge amounts of information very quickly.
Agricultural technology can increase food production. 🍞🍦🧀🍔🍛🍣🍩
