Social Studies vocab
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- human resources
- the services, knowledge, skills and intelligence that workers provide
- coastal plain
- plain next to an ocean
- suburb
- a community that grows up outside of a city
- manufacturing
- making goods from other materials
- capital resources
- the tools, machines, buildings and other equipment that a business uses to make goods or provide services.
- bay
- body of water partly surrounded by land but open to the sea.
- skyscraper
- a very tall building
- commuter
- travels between home and work each day
- profit
- the money left over after a business pays its expenses.
- market economy
- people are free to decide what to make, how to make it and for whom to make it.
- cape
- point of land that sticks out into the water
- university
- a school with several colleges that each focus on one area of study
- coast
- land next to an ocean