Identify economic resources located within a community. Students will demonstrate an understanding of geographic concepts and processes as needed to examine the role of culture, technology, and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities. Describe how transportation and communication networks link communities. Identify the natural, human, and capital resources used to produce the apple pie. Identify the types of transportation used by the baker in gathering the resources for her pie.
Human resources are people, with their special knowledge, skills, abilities and characteristics.
Capital resources or capital goods are human-made goods such as buildings, equipment, machinery, and roads used to produce other goods and services. Producers combine natural, human and capital resources to make goods and services. Producers must choose what goods or services to produce, what resources to use and in what combination to use them. In geography, movement is defined as people interacting with other people both locally and globally by traveling, communicating, and exchanging goods and services. You will play the part of the baker.