Students complete nine sentences about imports, exports, and specific US imports. The matching activity pairs natural resource, human resource, capital resource, and renewable resource with representative examples — lumber, a carpenter, a delivery truck, and wind energy.
Matching resource types to concrete examples reinforces the classifications students need to apply when analyzing a region's economy or a country's trade relationships.
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Resources and Trade
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. Goods brought into a country from another country are called imports.
2. Goods sent from one country to another for sale are called exports.
3. The United States imports oil from countries like Saudi Arabia.
4. Countries trade because no single country has all the resources it needs.
5. A consumer is a person who buys goods or services.
6. A producer is a person or company that makes goods.
7. Iron ore is a natural resource used to make steel.
8. Computers in an office are examples of capital resources.
9. Countries use money to pay for goods they import from other nations.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
Natural resource
→ Lumber from a forest
A skilled carpenter
Human resource
→ A skilled carpenter
Wind energy
Capital resource
→ A delivery truck
Lumber from a forest
Renewable resource
→ Wind energy
A delivery truck
Resources and Trade
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) Goods brought into a country from another country are called imports.
2) Goods sent from one country to another for sale are called exports.
3) The United States imports oil from countries like Saudi Arabia.
4) Countries trade because no single country has all the resources it needs.
5) A consumer is a person who buys goods or services.
6) A producer is a person or company that makes goods.
7) Iron ore is a natural resource used to make steel.
8) Computers in an office are examples of capital resources.
9) Countries use money to pay for goods they import from other nations.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
Natural resource
→ Lumber from a forest
A skilled carpenter
Human resource
→ A skilled carpenter
Wind energy
Capital resource
→ A delivery truck
Lumber from a forest
Renewable resource
→ Wind energy
A delivery truck
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