Goods and Services
Types of Resources
Producers and Consumers
Making Choices
Wants and Needs
100

Items you can see, like pencils or cars

Goods

100

This type of resource is found in nature and includes trees, water, and soil

Natural resource

100

The makers of goods

Producers

100

When you give up one thing for another

Trade-off

100

Something you must have in order to live

Need

200

Work that people do, such as fixing a car or cutting your hair

Services

200

This type of resource is a human-made item used to make other goods or provide services

Capital resource

200

The people who buy products

Consumers

200

The price needed to get something else

Cost

200

Something you would like to have but do not need

Want

300

Things that are made near where they are sold

Local goods

300

This type of resource includes people's talents and skills

Human resource

300

To bring in goods from another country

Import

300

What you have to give up to have something else

Opportunity cost

300

Food, shelter, water, clothing

Needs

400
When a plumber fixes pipes in a house

Service

400

The machine used to milk a cow

Capital resource

400

To send goods out to another country

Export

400

To spend time and effort now in hopes of a future reward

Invest

400

A squishmallow, a Stanley cup, or a new football

Wants

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