1. Natural Resources

2. U.S. Major features Long mountain ranges on either side of the US
The Appalachian Mountains in the East
The Rock Mountains in the West
In the middle = plains
The Mississippi River is the longest
The Great Lakes

3. The Nations Resources
A resource is something people use to produce goods and services.
Can be found everywhere across the U.S.
Types of resources
Natural
Nonrenewable
Renewable
Flow
Capital
Human

4. Natural Found in nature like water, coal, oil.
Renewable resources can be replaced.
Fisheries (resource renews itself)
Nonrenewable resources cannot be replaced.
Oil removed from the ground (no oil will take its place)
Flow resources can only be used where/when they are found
Wind power (only while the wind is blowing)
Other examples: sunlight and water

5. Capital Resources Made by people Human resources
Include tools, machines, and buildings
People need these to make goods and services
Human resources
People and skills and knowledge they have that are used to work
Examples: farmers and their knowledge of crops and teachers and their knowledge of how to teach students

6. Landforms, Resources, and People
Some resources are not available in all areas
Peoples lives are shaped by what resources and geography is around them
Example: building communities around rivers
Land good for crops
Water good for drinking

7. Scarcity
Not having enough resources to provide for all our needs and wants
Needs are things we cannot live without
Wants are things we would like to have
Forces people to decide what they want most
The thing we don’t choose is our opportunity cost
Countries solve this by having an economic system or set of rules that guides what we use (resources) and what we make
What, how, and who is decided by individuals instead of the government in the U.S. (free enterprise)