Basics of Economics

Mining causes pollution

a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people

Does mining extract, or take from,  the earth or put something back into the earth?

to use up; eat, drink, or ingest

work done for money

the action of buying and selling goods and services.

What is made of copper?

 a company or other group that makes, buys and sells goods or services in order to make money.

the amount of money made by a business that is more than the amount put in at the start or paid out as expenses.

An economic system in which land, factories, and other resources are owned by individuals and their businesses.

Is mining difficult or easy?

a wide area of open land often used for growing crops.

the science and work of raising crops and farm animals; farming.

a system that a group of people or country uses to produce and exchange the goods and services that people need