Communities make goods
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arandaguti on May 4, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Manufacturing | Bussines of making things |
| Factory | Place where things are manufactured . |
| Detroit, Michigan | is one of the world's great manufacturing cities. |
| Ford Company, Detroit | Used a moving assembly line in 1904 |
| Assembly line | Line of workers and machines all working together to make a final product. |
| People manufacturing cars today | Some plan, design,others build the parts, putting together, shipping truck and train drivers, sale persons in card dealers |
| Model T | The 1st car sold by Ford in 1908 |
| Cars are using parts from | all around the world: Canada, India, Taiwan |
| "Motor city" | Detroit |
| Manufacturing changed since | Henry Ford's time |
| New way to manufacture goods | Moving assamble line. |
| Cars dealers | Sell the cars to the consumers |
| Cars are shipped by | Truck and trains around the country. |
| Before Henry Ford | The entire car were built by two or three people. Cares were expensive. |
| After Henry Ford | Cars is build more quitly and cheaply, by moving assembly line. |
| Harvest | The gathering of ripe crops for a season |
| Agriculture | The business of growing crops and raising animals |
| Fertilizer | Chemicals used to help plants grow |
| Combine | A machine to harvest crops in the field faster. |
| Supply | amount of goods and services avalilable at any time. |
| Demand | How much people wants to buy goods that are in supply. |
| Scarcity | A shortage. Not having enough supply for needs |
| Flow chart | Shows the different steps necessary to complete an activity |
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