Economic Activities
This person buys or uses a good or service.
consumer
This economic activity includes growing crops and raising animals.
agriculture
This process turns materials into products.
manufacturing
This is travel to visit places or attractions
tourism
This industry uses knowledge about living things
life science industry
This industry creates or supports tools and services for using information.
information technology
This is where food may begin its journey to a meal
farm
This person or business makes a good or provides a service.
producer
These are examples of resources farmers may need: soil, water, and this.
sunlight, land, or suitable weather
These are people whose work helps make products.
factory workers
These businesses may provide visitors with a place to sleep.
hotels, motels, air bnb, lodging
This kind of business may develop medicines or improve crops
life science company
This worker might help create or maintain a website.
web developer, software developer, or technology support worker
This helps move food from farms to stores and markets.
transportation
This is something a person can buy and hold, such as a book.
good
300: These features can help explain why farming takes place in one area rather than another: soil, water, and this.
climate, land, or access to water
A factory may locate near these to help move materials and products
roads, railways, ports, or other transportation route
These places, such as historic sites or natural features, may bring visitors
attractions, events
A life science company may need workers with this kind of knowledge.
scientific or life science knowledge
This is one way businesses use technology to reach customers online.
internet, website
This is the step when workers gather ripe crops from the field.
harvesting
This is the money people receive when they sell their labor to a business
income
These nearby people may provide farm workers and buyers for agricultural products
population
This is the process of making goods from materials, workers, and tools
Manufactuing
This local economic activity can grow when visitors spend money at businesses.
tourism
This is one example of a life science product that a company may develop.
medicine, a crop variety, or another life science product?
This is the sharing or movement of information using digital tools and networks.
digital communication or data sharing
This business buys food or makes it available for consumers to purchase.
grocery store, food market
This economic interaction occurs when consumers choose what to buy and producers decide what to make or offer
The interaction between consumers and producers?
This factor can help explain why agricultural and industrial activities are concentrated in particular places.
resources, transportation, and population
Name two factors that may influence where a factory is located
Access to materials, transportation, workers, or customers
Explain one way a community’s location or attractions can support tourism businesses.
A community may attract visitors with natural, historic, or cultural attractions; visitors may then spend money at local businesses
Name one factor that may influence where a life science business locates.
Skilled workers, research resources, transportation, or access to partners
Name one way information technology can help a business serve customers.
It can help a business share information, sell products, communicate, or provide customer service
Explain how transportation connects a farm’s producers with consumers.
Transportation moves food from farms to businesses where consumers can buy it.