SSW #28 Families and Trade

What is the importance of trade?

• Trade helps families to get the things they need.

• Trade is not important.

• Trade helps families to make friends.

• Trade helps families to get better jobs.

________ is not having enough of something like food and water.

• Food banks

• Trade

• Scarcity

• Depend

Millions of people around the world do not have enough _______ to eat or _______ ________ to drink.

• food, clean water

• food, dirty water

• water, healthy food

• snacks, healthy water

What do families have to do when they don’t have enough of what they need?

• They choose to spend their money however they would like.

• They make difficult choices about how to spend their money.

• They choose to spend their money on things they do not need.

• They make easy choices about how to spend their money.

Where are two areas we get important resources for medicine from?

• South America and Africa

• North and South America

• South America and Florida

• Central and South America

_____________ give free food to families who do not have enough money to buy everything they need.

• Scarcity

• Food banks

• Trade

• Depend

In this article, the family grew vegetables. How did they use them in trade?

• They only grew enough for the family.

• They traded the vegetables for rice and meat.

• They sold the extra vegetables at market to buy the things they needed.

• They gave away the extra vegetables.

Where is Nicaragua?

• Africa

• Asia

• Central America

• Europe

How are markets in Nicaragua different than markets in the United States?

• In Nicaragua items are in big bags and need to be measured. In the U.S. items are prepackaged.

• In the U.S. items are in big bags and need to be measured. In Nicaragua items are prepackaged.

• All markets are the same.

• In the U.S. we trade other goods for things we need. In Nicaragua they only use money.

People around the world __________ on each other.

• scarcity

• trade

• food

• depend