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Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What word means a material that people can use?

a)

resource

b)

capital

c)

money

d)

trade

2.

Why do people depend on resources?

a)

for culture

b)

for information

c)

for characteristics

d)

for survival

3.

What are the three kinds of resources?

a)

water, oil, trees

b)

oil, gold, copper

c)

natural, human, capital

d)

human, physical, water

4.

What term means tools that help us make other things?

a)

renewable resources

b)

flow resources

c)

capital resources

d)

nonrenewable resources

5.

Where do capital resources come from?

a)

made by nature

b)

water

c)

wind

d)

made by man

6.

Which of the following is true about capital resources?

a)

They are not natural.

b)

They can be mined.

c)

They are natural.

d)

They work very hard.

7.

What term means resources that include people, their ideas, and their skills?

a)

renewable resources

b)

capital resources

c)

human resources

d)

nonrenewable resources

8.

Economics is how people use the resources around them to meet their needs.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

This type of resource is found in nature and is not man-made.

a)

Capital Resource

b)

Natural Resource

c)

Human Resource

d)

Entrepreneur

10.

The workers needed to do a job or make something are called

a)

Natural Resources

b)

Capital Resources

c)

Human Resources

d)

Entrepreneurs

11.

Man-made tools and machines used to do a job are called

a)

Entrepreneur

b)

Natural Resource

c)

Capital Resource

d)

Human Resource

12.

A person who risks their own money to start a business is called a(n)

a)

Entrepreneur

b)

Capital Resource

c)

Human Resource

d)

Natural Resource

13.

Please select the capital resource a police officer may use.

a)

water

b)

a partner

c)

handcuffs

d)

soil

14.

Which is a human resource a restaurant owner may need?

a)

waiter

b)

food

c)

dishes

d)

cash register

15.

Which item is not a capital resource a teacher would use?

a)

computer

b)

desk

c)

paper

d)

lawnmower

16.

Which of these items is not a natural resource?

a)

minerals

b)

plants

c)

animals

d)

tractor

17.

Capital resources include all but one of the examples below...

a)

buildings

b)

water

c)

machines

d)

tools