Vocabulary
Things you would like to have, but don't need (toys).
Wants
A company that changes crops into food (like fruit into jam).
Processor
Companies that bring goods to the stores.
Distributors
This is needed by both factories and farms to do their work.
Water
There's only one cupcake left but ten hungry kids. What is this called?
Scarcity
This is the term for when there is not enough of something.
Scarcity
A person who buys things at a store.
Consumer
Physical things you can touch, like books or clothes.
Goods
The resources from nature, like water or trees.
Natural Resources
I work for no pay to help my town. What am I?
You use this when you borrow money and pay it back later.
Credit
A person who makes or grows things to sell.
Producer
Work someone does for you, like a haircut.
Services
Things for the whole town, like roads and traffic lights.
Public Works
I'm a company that supplies goods to stores. What am I?
a Distributor
Things you must have to stay alive (food, water).
Needs
This person works for no money to help others.
Volunteer
Goods that are made or built in a factory.
Manufacturing
When you buy and sell with other places to get what you need.
Trade
I'm a pencil. Am I a natural resource or manufactured?
Manufactured
When you pick one thing, this is the name for the one you didn't pick.
Opportunity Cost
As a boy, this man worked in the fields picking crops.
Cesar Chavez
True or False: You can be a producer AND a consumer
True
People might buy a plain item instead of a fancy one to do this.
I planted thousands of trees with other people, and made jobs for women in Kenya. I am...
1. Malala Yousafzai
2. Jody Williams
3. Wangari Maathai
4. Michelle Obama
3.Wangari Maathai