Manufacturing Operations Quiz

A large-scale manufacturing operation that employs many people and produces large quantities of goods.

• cottage industry

• traditional economy

• commercial industry

• manufacturing industry

A method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes.

• communism

• commercial industry

• subsistence agriculture

• cottage industry

A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity.

• traditional economy

• communism

• free enterprise

• free trade zones

All property and economic resources are owned and controlled by the state, rather than individual citizens.

• free enterprise

• command economy

• infrastructure

• traditional economy

Growing large quantities of crops or livestock in order to sell them for a profit.

• communism

• traditional economy

• commercial agriculture

• subsistence agriculture

A system in which private individuals or groups have the right to own property or businesses and make a profit with limited government interference.

• free market

• communism

• traditional economy

• socialism

Farming that provides the basic needs of a family with little surplus.

• traditional economy

• socialism

• commercial agriculture

• subsistence agriculture

The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact.

• globalization

• outsourcing

• surplus

• socialism

Sending jobs to other countries where they can be completed for less money.

• globalization

• outsourcing

• traditional economy

• free enterprise