Many Different Jobs

Many Different Jobs

Different Resources

• Human resources are people that can do a job

• Natural resources are things like soil and wood

• Capital resources are things such as tools, machines, and money

Multiple Choice

What is an example of capital resources?

• Rivers

• Land

• Soil

• Money

Special Skills and Jobs

• Projects, like building a bridge, can include many different jobs

• One person might draw the plans, a second person might figure out the cost, and a third person might get the tools and machines

• When each person has a specific skill and does one job or one part of a project, it is called specialization

• Assembly lines, teachers, nurses are all examples of specialized jobs

Multiple Choice

Teaching is an example of a specialized job.

Multiple Choice

When a person does one job or one part of a project, it is called ____.

• a division of labor

• interdependence

• specialization

• capital resources

Special Skills and Jobs Continued

• When there is a division of labor, a project is divided, or broken down, into smaller jobs

• Each person then works on his or her own job, and together they get the project done

• Specialization and division of labor help people learn to do one job well, THEY DO NOT HAVE TO LEARN TO DO MANY DIFFERENT JOBS

Multiple Choice

Specialization and division of labor help people ____

• learn to do many jobs

• learn to one job well

• not have to work

Interdependence

• When people depend one each other to get the things they need and want is called interdependence

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Multiple Choice

Machines do not help farmers do their job.