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Summary: A child and her father plant, water, weed, and pick vegetables to make soup. Concept: Natural Resources Definition: Natural resources are gifts of nature that are used in the production of goods and services. Comprehension Questions: Identify the natural resources used to make the vegetable soup. (fertile soil, water, seeds) What ingredients
were produced to make the soup? What capital resources were used? (shovel, rake, hoe, trowel, watering can, spading fork, pail, soup pot, soup ladle, knife, stove) Explain what could be done to help renew the natural resources after the vegetables are grown? (adding compost to the soil; crop rotatio; spring plow to help avoid erosion; collecting seeds from the new vegetables, etc.) Other Concepts: Productive Resources, Human Resources, Capital Resources
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