6th Grade Social Studies Unit 6a

All are main economic questions that countries need to answer except:

• What will be produced?
• How will it be produced?
• Who will receive the things that are produced? 
• What's for lunch?

the study of how people use resources to produce, distribute and consume goods and services

• economics
• consumption
• distribution
• production

an organized way a society uses to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services

• economic system
• educational system
• circulatory system
• evolutionary system

the process of using natural resources or goods and services

• consumption
• distribution
• production
• economics

the process of making goods and services

• production
• consumption
• distribution
• economics

moving goods and services directly to or near consumers

• distribution
• consumption
• producation
• economics

the resources used to produce goods and services

• factors of production
• factors of pollution
• factors of consumption
• factors of distribution

any physical environmental item that people perceive to be useful

• natural (land) resource
• human (labor) resource
• capital resource
• global resource

workers and their abilities, talents, training, skills, and knowledge used to produce goods or services

• human (labor) resources
• natural (land) resource
• capital resources
• global resources

equipment or goods (machinery, tools, factories, stores, vehicles, etc.) that are used to produce other goods and servcies

• capital resources
• natural resources
• human resources
• global resources