Unit 7 High availability and scarcity of resources

The limited amount of resources available

• Resource

• Competition

• Scarcity

• Cost

The school year is getting ready to start. Stores are having clearance sales on swimwear. There’s still a wide selection of swimwear from which to choose.

• High Availability of Resources

• Scarcity of Resources

Crackle Cereal is a favorite at the Morton family breakfast each morning. The corn crop did well because there was plenty of rain and sunshine. There are plenty of cornflakes.

• High Availablility of Resources

• Scarcity of Resources

We use paper plates for dinner on the nights we have ball games or church. Mom said we are going to have to start washing our dishes because the Pine Tree Beetles have destroyed so many trees in the forest. We need to conserve the trees that are left.

• High Availability of Resources

• Scarcity of Resources

Due to the drought, communities can only water their yard once a week. Now

the nurseries have an overabundance of outdoor plants.

• High Availability of Resources

• Scarcity of Resources

The cost of a pound of hamburger meat will be changing soon. The Japanese cows came down with The Mad Cow Disease and thousands of the cattle died.

• Scarcity of Resources

• High Availavility of Resources

Texas is known for growing juicy oranges. This year the arctic blast

caused many of the branches of the orange trees to split and fall to the ground because of the heavy ice. The young oranges could not be saved.

• High Availability of Resources

• Scarcity of Resources

Coffee beans are flooding the market because many South American countries are learning to grow flavored beans that make great coffee.

• Scarcity of Resources

• High Availability of Resources

The farmers planted apple seeds all across our land. These trees did well throughout the country because of the bee population that pollinated the apple blossoms.

• Scarcity of Resources

• High Availability of Resources

A gallon of milk once cost $2.50. Lately it has cost about $3.00 because several large dairy farms were closed due to unclean milking machines.

• High Availability of Resources

• Scarcity of Resources