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Scarcity

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  • What do stores do with scarce items?
    Stores raise the prices of scarce items.
  • What must the food company do when oranges are scarce?
    The food company must choose how to use oranges when they are scarce.
  • What are resources?
    Things people want and use are resources.
  • What is a hurricane?
    A dangerous storm with very strong winds and rain
  • When did the gas shortage happen in the story?
    In the 1970s.
  • What colour is the rabbit?
    Green
  • What does trade-off mean?
    a giving up of one thing in return for another
  • Which countries have scarcity, the rich ones or the poor ones?
    All countries have scarcity.
  • Use the word DECIDE in a sentence
    She couldn’t decide which t-shirt to buy
  • Use the word ORANGE in a sentence
    Oranges were scarce because of hurricanes in Florida.
  • Use the word HARM in a sentence
    A few years ago, cold weather harmed orange trees.
  • What is a company doing when it decides to sell whole oranges and not juice?
    The company is making a trade-off.
  • What does popular mean?
    Liked by a lot of people
  • How much gas could people buy?
    They could only buy 10 gallons of gas!
  • Why did Ben not want to buy the toy immediately after finding it?
    The store was charging a price above what Ben wanted to pay.
  • What year did hurricanes damage oranges in Florida?
    2004
  • Who wrote Scarcity?
    Janeen R. Adil
  • Use the word PRICE in a sentence
    Stores raise the prices of scarce items.
  • What is scarcity?
    Scarcity is when there aren’t enough resources for everyone.
  • According to the story, what did NOT happen in the 1970s?
    Everyone who wanted gas could buy it.
    There wasn’t enough gas.
    People waited in long lines for hours to fill up their cars.
    Some people stopped driving.
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