Many Different Jobs pgs. 275-276

Communities around the world do not get help from specialization and division of labor.

• True
• False

Writing, welding, and teaching can all be skills.

• True
• False

If I live in a country with many trees, I might learn to work with wood.

• True
• False

What can people around the world do so they all get what they need?

• work
• trade
• cut wood
• make a boat

When people depend on each other to get the things they need and want, it is called ______.

• specialization
• trade
• division of labor
• interdependence

When people attend schools in different countries, this is a way people around the world are interdependent.

• True
• False

Long ago, what would farmers do if they needed something they could not make or grow?

• try to grow it
• barter for the goods
• forget about it and try something else
• try to make it

What is something both farmers from long ago and farmers from today have in common?

• they both grow as much food as they can
• they both use science
• they both did all the work by hand
• they both used only machines

Why do farmers today grow much more than farmers did long ago?

• because they do everything by hand
• because they only barter
• because they specialize
• because they communicate

You have a job too and it's to be a student.

• True
• False